In re the Conditional Admission to the Bar

Order of Court. J. Edward Day, a domiciliary of the State of Maryland, and a member of the Bar of Illinois and the District of Columbia, having been conditionally admitted to the Maryland Bar without examination on June 20, 1972, pursuant to Rule 14, Rules Governing Admission to the Bar of Maryland, subject to the provisions of Rule 14 k requiring ²⁰⁵ that upon the expiration of eighteen months following his conditional admission, Day certify to the Board of Law Examiners that he has, “for at least twelve (12) months immediately preceding the filing of the certificate, been regularly engaged in the practice of law in this State and has had an office for such practice in this State,” defined in Rule 14 h as: “an office utilized for the practice of law in which an attorney either as proprietor (alone or in partnership) or as an employee of such a proprietor or of an agency of government or of a business or other nongovernmental concern, organization or association usually devotes a substantial part of his time to the practice of law during ordinary business hours in the traditional work week. An attorney shall be deemed to be ‘in’ such an office even though he is temporarily absent therefrom in the performance of duties of a law practice actively conducted by him from that office.” J. Edward Day having filed the certificate required by Rule 14 k on December 20, 1973, stating therein that he had been regularly engaged in the practice of law from June 20, 1972, to December 20, 1973, and that during that period he had an office for the practice of law, as defined in Rule 14 h, at Harris Road, Barnesville, Maryland; and The Board of Law Examiners having concluded on November 20, 1974, after a hearing was held and testimony was taken, and after considering the certification filed by Day under Rule 14 k, “that Mr. Day’s office did not meet the requirement of an office for the practice of law as defined by Rule 14 h and that the condition subsequent required by Rule 14 k has not been met”; and The Board having recommended that Day’s conditional admission be stricken, and Day having filed exceptions to the Board’s recommendation, asserting that he had satisfactorily demonstrated his intention to practice law in Maryland and had maintained an office for such practice in this State in accordance with the requirements of Rule 14 h; and ²⁰⁶ J. Edward Day having also contended in his exceptions to the Board’s recommendation that the provisions of Rule 14 h and k requiring that he maintain an office for the practice of law in this State, as defined