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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...
Advance Conflict Waivers in New York — Part 2

October 1, 2006

By Roy Simon [Originally published in NYPRR October 2006] Last month in NYPRR (Sept. 2006), in Part 1 of this article, I discussed New York judicial opinions and bar...

New Perspective: Revisiting “Cohen v. Lord Day & Lord”

March 1, 2002

By Ronald C. Minkoff [Originally published in NYPRR ] When I was in high school, a teacher showed my class a picture — one I am sure many readers have also seen. Viewed...

Last Chance to Comment on ABA Ethics 20/20 Draft Proposals

November 1, 2011

By Roy Simon [Originally published in NYPRR November 2011] In 2009, the ABA created the ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20, which has been comprehensively reviewing the ABA...

When Case-Within-a-Case Method Helps Plaintiffs Prove Legal Malpractice

May 1, 2015

By Daniel L. Abrams Causation is an essential element in any legal malpractice case. When the plaintiff alleges that an attorney mishandled a lawsuit, in order to prove causation...
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