The circuit court for the county is hereby authorized and empowered to make rules of court relating to practice before such court and relating to admission of attorneys to practice before such court, and the circuit court is authorized and empowered to license attorneys to practice before the circuit court for the county and fix a fee for the issuance of such license in an amount not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) and not more than two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00), and such license fee shall be paid to the clerk of the circuit court for the county and be disbursed by him for the purchase of law books for the court library as directed by the judges of the circuit court for the county.
No person shall practice law in the county or appear before any court in the county until he or she shall have first complied with the rules of practice established by the circuit court for the county and until he or she has procured a license for the same whenever so required. (Mont. Co. Code 1965, § 7-12; 1943, ch. 1004.)
Editor’s note—In Bastian v. Watkins, 230 Md. 325, 187 A.2d 304 (1963), it was held that that portion of a local rule of court as prohibits a Maryland attorney from filing a pleading in the circuit court unless he maintains a bona fide office in Maryland is invalid because it is contrary to and inconsistent with the Maryland Rules of Procedure. In Lakes v. Bar Ass’n of Montgomery County, Md., Inc., 35 Md. App. 442, 371 A.2d 669 (1977), it was held that a “personnel consultant” who respresented County employees in personal matters against the County was engaged in the unauthorized practice of law.
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