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How to Lose Your Legal Fee, Part 3: Fee Disputes with Clients...

April 18, 2017

By Ronald C. Minkoff More than a year ago, we embarked on a three-part series on “How to Lose Your Legal Fees.” Part 1, in our February 2016 edition, examined excessive fees,...

Practical Ethics Considerations for Lawyers Hired to Fix or Mitigate Another Lawyer’s...

April 18, 2017

By Daniel L. Abrams When a client suffers a loss due to legal malpractice, the client will often fire the negligent lawyer and hire another one. This article will refer to such...

Recent N.Y. Ethics Opinions: March/April 2017

April 18, 2017

By Tyler Maulsby, Associate, Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz Here are summaries of ethics opinions issued November 2016. The opinions were issued by the NYSBA Committee on...

Ethical Implications of Emergent Technologies

February 10, 2017

By Laurence Banville Emergent technologies have already altered our lives in unprecedented ways. For practicing attorneys, these innovations pose both risks and benefits. Perhaps...
Legal Malpractice & Breach of Fiduciary Duty — Part II

May 1, 2006

By Roy Simon [Originally published in NYPRR May 2006] Last month’s article (NYPRR April 2006) asked whether courts should permit clients to pursue parallel claims for...

Indigent Defense in N.Y. — OCA Offers an Action Plan: Part 3

December 1, 2006

By Lazar Emanuel [Originally published in NYPRR December 2006] (This is the third of a series of articles on the condition of New York’s system for providing counsel to...

Searching Web to Find a Lawyer

December 1, 2006

By Lazar Emanuel [Originally published in NYPRR December 2006] Click on Google or any of the other search engines and search under Find a Lawyer. You’ll find page after...

All in the Family? Corporate Family Conflicts & Letters of Engagement —...

January 1, 2007

By Roy Simon [Originally published in NYPRR January 2007] Last month (NYPRR Dec. 2006), in Part I of this article, I provided detailed background for McKesson Information...
Are Restrictive Practice Agreements Fair Game After Feldman?

June 1, 1998

By Mary C. Daly [Originally published in NYPRR June 1998] Negotiating the settlement of an ongoing or threatened litigation is a complex task, demanding the thoughtful...

Court Rejects Disqualification for Unauthorized Contact

July 1, 2004

By Lazar Emanuel [Originally published in NYPRR July 2004] Attorney David Lansner, counsel for plaintiff Tylena, telephoned Mia Higgins, in-house counsel for defendant...

Lawyer May Contact Adverse Party’s Accountant

March 1, 2001

By Lazar Emanuel [Originally published in NYPRR March 2001] NYSBA Opinion 735 May a lawyer communicate with an accountant who has worked as an independent contractor for...

How Bar Association Ethics Committees Operate

November 1, 1998

By Roy Simon [Originally published in NYPRR November 1998] Ethics issues arise in your law practice every day. Most of them you can resolve fairly easily, usually by...
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