A New York attorney and his firm are facing the heat of a New Jersey law establishing civil damages for the unauthorized practice of law.

Davidson, Dawson & Clark and attorney P. Gregory Hess are defendants in a civil suit filed by the estate of a New Jersey woman who retained Hess to draft her will. The suit seeks damages from Hess, who is not admitted in New Jersey, for his $675-per-hour production of a will that  was successfully contested by the deceased woman’s husband.