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Tips for Minimizing Law Firm Liability During the Covid-19 Crisis – Part...

November 30, 2023

By Nicole Hyland — This article was originally published on May 11, 2020. The Covid-19 crisis has upended the legal industry, forcing law firms to adapt quickly to an...

Tips for Minimizing Law Firm Liability During the Covid-19 Crisis – Part...

November 30, 2023

By Nicole Hyland — This article was originally published on May 6, 2020. The Covid-19 crisis has upended the legal industry, forcing law firms to adapt quickly to an...

Tips for Minimizing Law Firm Liability During the Covid-19 Crisis – Part...

November 30, 2023

By Nicole Hyland — This article was originally published on May 4, 2020. The Covid-19 crisis has upended the legal industry, forcing law firms to adapt quickly to an...

Tips for Minimizing Law Firm Liability During the Covid-19 Crisis – Part...

November 30, 2023

By Nicole Hyland — This article was originally published on April 29, 2020. The Covid-19 crisis has upended the legal industry, forcing law firms to adapt quickly to an...
Arbitration of Fee Disputes — Real or Only an Illusion?

November 1, 2008

By Lazar Emanuel [Originally published in NYPRR November 2008] Prior to Jan. 1, 2002, the only lawyer/client fee disputes requiring submission to arbitration were disputes...

From Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics: Opinion 08-71 (April 24, 2008)

July 1, 2008

[Originally published in NYPRR July 2008] The Advisory Committee on Judicial ethics (www.nycourts.gov/ip/acje) responds to written inquiries from New York State’s full-...

Ethics Research Made Easy, or, at Least, Easier

July 1, 2008

By Jeremy R. Feinberg [Originally published in NYPRR July 2008] For all of the scholarly and practical literature written about ethics issues, there is relatively little...

Are Communications with Public Officials Barred by DR 7-104?

July 1, 2008

By Roy Simon [Originally published in NYPRR July 2008] Over the years, NYPRR has carried many columns about the no-contact rule, codified as DR 7-104 in New York (and as...
Time-Barred Counterclaim in Lawyer’s Suit for Fees

November 1, 2002

By Lazar Emanuel [Originally published in NYPRR November 2002] Attorney Jay Landa represented clients Margaret and Patrick Mullen in a Family Court proceeding in 1997 and...

Shoals to Avoid When Paying Potential Witnesses

July 1, 2003

By Mary C. Daly [Originally published in NYPRR July 2003] The Beatles sang, “I get by with a little help from my friends.” But the Beatles weren’t lawyers. Some forms...

Proposed SEC Standards — Round 2 for SEC Bar

March 1, 2003

By Roy Simon [Originally published in NYPRR March 2003] On Nov. 21, 2002, to comply with the Congressional mandate in §307 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, the SEC...

Recent N.Y. Ethics Opinions: February 2016

February 8, 2016

By Tyler Maulsby, Associate, Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz Here are summaries of ethics opinions issued October and December 2015. The opinions were issued by the NYSBA...
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FASCINATING FALL-OUT FROM A TRUMP PROSECUTOR’S MEMOIR OF A CASE...

The Rise of the Robot Lawyer? DoNotPay’s Legal AI Faces...

DoNotPay Cases Underscore Hurdles For AI-Fueled Legal Help

Remote-Practitioner Update: Reciprocal Admission May Now Be Viable Under the...

New York’s Tough (Maybe Too Tough) Disclosure Rules

N.J. Supreme Court Holds that Defendants Must Move for a...

ABA Formal Opinion 489 Limits Restrictions on Departing Partners

Frankfurt Kurnit Litigation Ethics Summit “Game Show”

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Tips for Minimizing Law Firm Liability During the Covid-19 Crisis – Part...

Tips for Minimizing Law Firm Liability During the Covid-19 Crisis – Part...

Tips for Minimizing Law Firm Liability During the Covid-19 Crisis – Part...

Tips for Minimizing Law Firm Liability During the Covid-19 Crisis – Part...

Arbitration of Fee Disputes — Real or Only an Illusion?

From Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics: Opinion 08-71 (April 24, 2008)

Ethics Research Made Easy, or, at Least, Easier

Are Communications with Public Officials Barred by DR 7-104?

Time-Barred Counterclaim in Lawyer’s Suit for Fees

Shoals to Avoid When Paying Potential Witnesses

Proposed SEC Standards — Round 2 for SEC Bar

Recent N.Y. Ethics Opinions: February 2016

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