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title_name: "JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE"
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# 28 U.S.C. § 607 - Practice of law prohibited

## Text

An officer or employee of the Administrative Office shall not engage directly or indirectly in the practice of law in any court of the United States.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 915.)

## Notes

Historical and Revision NotesBased on title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 445 (Mar. 3, 1911, ch. 231, § 303, as added Aug. 7, 1939, ch. 501, § 1, 53 Stat. 1223). This section contains the last paragraph of title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 445. The remainder of said section is incorporated in sections 602 and 603 of this title. Changes were made in phraseology.