<section xmlns="http://xml.house.gov/schemas/uslm/1.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" style="-uslm-lc:I80" id="id2a376bde-56ae-11e3-a050-c6d294ef27da" identifier="/us/usc/t28/s955"><num value="955">§ 955.</num><heading> Practice of law restricted</heading><content>
<p style="-uslm-lc:I11" class="indent0">The clerk of each court and his deputies and assistants shall not practice law in any court of the United States.</p>
</content><sourceCredit id="id2a376bdf-56ae-11e3-a050-c6d294ef27da">(<ref href="/us/act/1948-06-25/ch646">June 25, 1948, ch. 646</ref>, <ref href="/us/stat/62/926">62 Stat. 926</ref>.)</sourceCredit>
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<note style="-uslm-lc:I74" topic="historicalAndRevision" id="id2a376be1-56ae-11e3-a050-c6d294ef27da"><heading class="centered smallCaps">Historical and Revision Notes</heading><p style="-uslm-lc:I21" class="indent0">Based on title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., §§ 395 and 396 (<ref href="/us/act/1911-03-03/ch231">Mar. 3, 1911, ch. 231</ref>, §§ 273, 274, <ref href="/us/stat/36/1164">36 Stat. 1164</ref>).</p>
<p style="-uslm-lc:I21" class="indent0">Section consolidates parts of sections 395 and 396 of title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed. The remainder, relating to United States marshals and their deputies, is incorporated in <ref href="/us/usc/t28/s556">section 556 of this title</ref>.</p>
<p style="-uslm-lc:I21" class="indent0">Sections 395 and 396 of title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., have been extended to include all clerks, deputies, and assistants.</p>
<p style="-uslm-lc:I21" class="indent0">The revised section substitutes as simpler and more appropriate, the prohibition against practice of law “in any court of the United States.” (See reviser’s note under <ref href="/us/usc/t28/s556">section 556 of this title</ref>.)</p>
<p style="-uslm-lc:I21" class="indent0">For explanation of provisions omitted from sections 395 and 396 of title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., also see reviser’s note under <ref href="/us/usc/t28/s556">section 556 of this title</ref>.</p>
<p style="-uslm-lc:I21" class="indent0">Changes in phraseology were made.</p>
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