2006 New York Code - Action Against Attorney For Lending His Name In Suits And Against Person Using Name.

 
    §  476.  Action  against  attorney  for  lending his name in suits and
  against person using name. If an attorney knowingly permits a person not
  being his general law partner, or a clerk in his office, to  sue  out  a
  mandate,  or  to  prosecute or defend an action in his name, he, and the
  person who so uses his name, each forfeits to the party against whom the
  mandate has been sued out, or the action prosecuted or defended, the sum
  of fifty dollars, to be recovered in an action.