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March/April 2017 Issue

April 18, 2017

Welcome to the New York Legal Ethics Reporter On behalf of Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz PC and the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University, we introduce the New...

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...
Accepting Legal Fees from Client’s Employer

June 1, 2006

By Roy Simon [Originally published in NYPRR June 2006] If a company under investigation retains you to represent an employee who is asked to cooperate in an internal...

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...

City Bar Maps Lawyers’ Role in Public Companies — Part I

January 1, 2007

By Lazar Emanuel [Originally published in NYPRR January 2007] A Task Force of the City Bar appointed by Bettina Plevan, former City Bar President, and chaired by Thomas H....
Hot Current Topics in Lawyer Supervision

August 1, 2004

By Ronald C. Minkoff [Originally published in NYPRR August 2004] The New York Code of Professional Responsibility makes it clear that attorneys in law firms or corporate or...

Advance Fee Retainers: Should We Change Rules?

July 1, 2001

By Sarah Diane McShea [Originally published in NYPRR July 2001] It has long been the rule in New York that lawyers are not required to place advance fee payments in their...

England & U.S.: Contrasts in Witness Preparation Rules

March 1, 2006

By Brad Rudin & Betsy Hutchings [Originally published in NYPRR March 2006] In contrast to American principles allowing counsel to confer with a witness about the...

Conflicts of Interest in Malpractice Cases

March 1, 2000

By Stephen Gillers [Originally published in NYPRR March 2000] An intriguing question in the field of lawyer regulation is the relevance of conflict of interest rules in...
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