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<section article="gbo" article_name="Business Occupations and Professions" number="10-215" title_number="10" title_name="Lawyers" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Admission to Bar">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Subject to subsections (b) and (c) of this section, on a motion filed as required by rules adopted by the Supreme Court of Maryland, a court may grant special admission to practice law in a particular case to an individual who is:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>admitted to the bar of another state; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>employed by a party in the case before:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>a court or other unit of the State government; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>a unit of a political subdivision of the State.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A special admission to practice law may be granted only:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>by the court hearing the case for which an individual requests the special admission; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>if the case is before a unit other than a court, by:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the circuit court for the county where the unit has its principal office; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>any circuit court to which the case may be appealed.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>An individual may practice law under this section only in connection with the case for which the special admission is granted.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>An individual who practices law under this section is subject to disciplinary proceedings as the Maryland Rules provide.</text>
  </level>
</section>
