full-time faculty member or full-time clinical fellow

at an accredited Connecticut law school and admitted in a reciprocal or nonreciprocal jurisdic- tion and (A) has lawfully engaged in the practice of law as the applicant’s principal means of liveli- hood for at least five of the ten years immediately preceding the date of the application and is in good standing, or (B) if the applicant has taken the bar examinations of Connecticut and failed to pass them, the applicant has lawfully engaged in the practice of law as his or her principal means of livelihood for at least five of the ten years imme- diately preceding the date of the application and is in good standing, provided that such five years of practice shall have occurred subsequent to the applicant’s last failed Connecticut examination; and (3) is a citizen of the United States or an alien lawfully residing in the United States, which shall include an individual authorized to work lawfully in the United States, may be admitted as an attorney without examination upon application and the pay- ment of such fee as the committee shall from time to time determine, upon compliance with the following requirements. Such application shall be filed with the director of the committee and shall set forth the applicant’s qualifications as hereinbe- fore provided, and shall certify whether such appli- cant has a grievance pending against him or her, has ever been reprimanded, suspended, placed on inactive status, disbarred, or has ever resigned from the practice of law and, if so, setting forth the circumstances concerning such action. The following recommendations shall be filed by the person making the recommendation: (A) recommendations from two attorneys who personally know the applicant certifying to his or her good moral character and fitness to practice law and supporting, to the satisfaction of the com- mittee, his or her practice of law as defined under subdivision (2) of this subsection; and (B) recommendations from two members of the bar of Connecticut of at least five years’ standing, certifying that the applicant is of good moral char- acter and is fit to practice law. (b) For the purpose of this rule, the ‘‘practice of law’’ shall include the following activities, if per- formed after the date of the applicant’s admission to the jurisdiction in which the activities were per- formed, or if performed in a jurisdiction that per- mits such activity by a lawyer not admitted to practice: (1) representation of one or more clients in the practice of law; (2) service as a lawyer with a state, federal, or territorial agency, including military services; (3) teaching law at an accredited law school, including supervision of law students within a clini- cal program; (4) service as a judge in a state, federal, or territorial court of record; (5) service as a judicial law clerk; (6) service as authorized house counsel; (7) service as authorized house counsel in Con- necticut before July 1, 2008, or while certified pur- suant to Section 2-15A; or (8) any combination of the above. (P.B. 1978-1997, Sec. 21.) (Amended June 28, 1999, to take effect Jan. 1, 2000; amended June 22, 2009, to take effect Jan. 1, 2010; amended June 21, 2010, to take effect Jan. 1, 2011; amended June 20, 2011, to take effect Jan. 1, 2012; amended June 15, 2012, to take effect Sept. 1, 2012; amended June 13, 2014, to take effect Jan. 1, 2015; amended June 15, 2018, to take effect July 3, 2018; amended June 26, 2020, to take effect Jan. 1, 2021; amended June 10, 2022, to take effect Jan. 1, 2023; amended June 9, 2023, to take effect Jan. 1, 2024.)