What this site covers

Every U.S. federal district court and every state bar sets its own rules for who may be admitted and who may appear in a single case without full admission. This site collects those rules for all 94 federal district courts and all 51 state and District of Columbia bars, with fees, forms and a link to the source document for each.

Terms used here

General admission: Admission to the bar of a federal district court. Most courts require membership in a particular bar; the map colors each district by the route it accepts.
Admission on motion: A state route that admits a lawyer licensed elsewhere without a bar examination, usually on years of practice and sometimes on reciprocity with the lawyer's home state.
UBE score transfer: Admission based on a Uniform Bar Examination score earned in another jurisdiction, subject to a minimum score and a time window.
Pro hac vice: Permission to appear in one case without being admitted generally, commonly with a local counsel requirement and a fee.

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