---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 U.S.C. § 607"
title: "28"
title_heading: "Judiciary and Judicial Procedure"
number: "607"
heading: "Practice of law prohibited"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/28/607"
units:
  - "Part III — Court Officers and Employees"
  - "Chapter 41 — Administrative Office of United States Courts"
---

# §607. Practice of law prohibited


An officer or employee of the Administrative Office shall not engage directly or indirectly in the practice of law in any court of the United States.


## Source credit

(June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 915.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

Based on title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 445 (Mar. 3, 1911, ch. 231, § 303, as added Aug. 7, 1939, ch. 501, § 1, 53 Stat. 1223).

This section contains the last paragraph of title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 445. The remainder of said section is incorporated in sections 602 and 603 of this title.

Changes were made in phraseology.