Registry field guides
Legal Guides
Explainers for reading New York OCA attorney registration fields and linked discipline rows. Every example is a public record; none of this is legal advice or an attorney referral.
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- NY OCA
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Seven registry-field guides explain how to read NY OCA attorney registration, status codes, discipline rows, and law-school placement counts.
These explainers translate the public New York Office of Court Administration attorney registry into plain language. Every example is a public record; none of this is legal advice or an attorney referral.
- 7 guides
- NY OCA source registry
- Registry voice no ratings or referrals
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Seven explainers covering bar admission, discipline, law schools, and how to read the public record.
What OCA status, admission date, law school, and discipline fields mean on the public registration row.
A step-by-step path to verifying any attorney's disciplinary history against the public record.
What active, inactive, suspended, and disbarred mean as OCA registration codes.
Registry definitions for admission, status codes, and discipline rows, attributed to OCA.
Which law schools send the most graduates into the New York bar, and what the counts do and don't reveal.
How to look up and confirm a registrant using public NY OCA bar registration records.
How practice-area labels appear in public directories versus what the OCA registration file carries.
Methodology
Every guide on PlainAttorney is grounded in the same public bar registration data that powers the attorney lookup. Guides explain how to read and verify that data; they do not provide legal advice, and they do not rank or recommend specific attorneys.
- Sources: Every factual claim in a guide cites the underlying source (state bar, BLS, ABA, or academic research). Unsourced statements are avoided.
- Verification paths: Each guide points to the official channel where a reader can verify the claim themselves, typically the state court administration search portal or the data publisher.
- Update cadence: Guides are reviewed when the underlying data refreshes, when governing law changes, or when reader feedback surfaces an inaccuracy. Updates are dated on the individual guide pages.
- Scope limits: Guides describe how bar systems work in general and in the states where PlainAttorney has data. They do not constitute legal advice and do not substitute for consultation with a licensed attorney on a specific matter.
Primary sources: NY Office of Court Administration (data.ny.gov), BLS OES Lawyers (SOC 23-1011), American Bar Association. Full methodology documented at /methodology.
Download the office-state aggregate extract cited on this page: plainattorney-statistics.csv (CC BY-SA 4.0; aggregate only, not individual attorney rows).