Admission

Anyways, this is what you're working toward once you've passed all the requirements:  

Every month there's a day set aside for the attorney admissions interview and swearing in ceremony.  There are a LOT of people involved, this is not a small administrative affair.  

It'll be at the Empire State Plaza in Albany, a building which apparently has quite some history behind it.  It is a very large building.  Keep your eyes peeled for the signs they'll put out - if you miss 'em, you'll get lost.  Not everyone will be helpful in steering you the right way.  

Once you get there and register, they'll put you into various holding rooms where you'll wait to be called up for your final admissions interview, where your interviewer will assess whether you ought to be a lawyer in New York.  My interviewer was very kind, I kinda wish I knew his name :-). In any case, if you clear the interview... you get to do this (one ceremony every half an hour or so - yes there are THAT many applicants):  

(As an aside, the little girl in the picture near the bottom is the daughter of one of the people being sworn in during the next session after this photo I took, and she was totally adorable, everybody was laughing.  Quite a lot of families were there, to witness their father/mother/siblings/partners being admitted to the NY Bar, it was a cheerful event)

And that's it.