{"id":343257,"date":"2026-09-10T22:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T22:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/343257\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T22:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T22:04:10","slug":"u-s-senator-kirsten-gillibrand-sees-attorney-registration-suspended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/343257\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand sees attorney registration suspended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is suspended from practicing law in New York State after a <a href=\"https:\/\/decisions.courts.state.ny.us\/ad3\/Decisions\/2026\/PM-201-26%20Mass%20Suspension.pdf\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">court decision<\/a> Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>As first reported by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/news\/article\/gillibrand-among-1-000-lawyers-barred-practicing-22426043.php\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Albany Times-Union<\/a> and confirmed by WAMC, Gillibrand was one of more than 1,000 attorneys suspended by a New York State appeals court judge for failing to file registration paperwork. <\/p>\n<p>That paperwork is supposed to be filed every two years on an attorney&#8217;s birthday. State rules allow for a 30-day grace period.<\/p>\n<p>Gillibrand was admitted to the bar in January 1991, according to state records. She worked as a practicing attorney at two New York City-based law firms from 1991 to 2005, when she left to campaign for Congress.<\/p>\n<p>WAMC has reached out to Gillibrand&#8217;s office for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is suspended from practicing law in New York State after a court decision Thursday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-343257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}