Varney Enterprises, Inc. v. WMF, INC.

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• noting “well-established common law principle that corporations must appear and be represented in court, if at all, by attorneys”
• relying on a small claims court procedural rule that stated: “The role of the attorney may be limited by the court. Others, in addition to attorneys, may be permitted to assist or appear on behalf of the parties.” (citation omitted)
• “corporation may not be represented in judicial proceedings by a corporate officer who is not an attorney licensed to practice law in the Commonwealth”
• “[A] corporation may not be represented in judicial proceedings by a corporate officer who is not an attorney licensed to practice law in the Commonwealth”
• corporation may not be represented in judicial proceedings by corporate officer who is not licensed attorney, except in small claims matters
• where corporation employee engaged in unauthorized practice of law by representing corporation in court, case remanded with instruction that default judgment against corporation be vacated if, within thirty days, attorney should appear and file answer on corporation's behalf

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).