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Liebowitz Law Firm Ends Operations

June 17, 2022

By Edward Rosenthal & Tyler Maulsby — In January 2022, my Professional Responsibility and Ethics partner Tyler Maulsby and I wrote about whether and how Richard...

Duty to Disclose Suspensions or Other Discipline to Clients

June 17, 2022

By John B. Harris — Are lawyers obliged to disclose to clients they have been suspended in another jurisdiction based upon multiple acts of incompetence? Or that the...

Non-Lawyer Practice & Access to Justice: The Upsolve Case

June 17, 2022

Sometimes lawsuits lead to the right result for the wrong reason. And sometimes, the reasoning doesn’t really matter: it is the result that counts. U.S. District Judge...

ABA Formal Opinion 489 Limits Restrictions on Departing Partners

February 8, 2020

There’s important news for law firm leaders who have recently revised partnership and shareholder agreements to restrict partner departures. In ABA Formal Opinion 489, the ABA...
Lawyer Starting Debt Action Is Debt Collector Under FDCPA

June 1, 2006

By Lazar Emanuel [Originally published in NYPRR June 2006] In a matter of first impression in the Second Circuit, the Court of Appeals has found that the commencement of a...

City Bar Maps Lawyers’ Role in Dealing with Auditors — Part II

February 1, 2007

By Lazar Emanuel [Originally published in NYPRR February 2007] In Part I of this article, published in January 2007, we summarized some of the “Best Practices”...

Commentary: Questions Persist on Issue of Lawyer Ratings

February 1, 2007

By Lazar Emanuel [Originally published in NYPRR February 2007] A careful reading of the text of the new Advertising Rules which became effective today, Feb. 1, 2007,...

Thumbnail Guide to Amended Advertising Rules

February 1, 2007

By Roy Simon [Originally published in NYPRR February 2007] On Jan. 4, 2007, the courts announced extensive amendments to the rules governing lawyer advertising in New York....
How to Avoid Disqualification in a Multi-Firm Beauty Contest

July 1, 2006

By Lazar Emanuel [Originally published in NYPRR July 2006] In the increasingly competitive world in which law firms contend for business by submitting to beauty contests,...

Commentary: “Stern v. Bluestone” Decision Troublesome

March 1, 2008

By Lazar Emanuel [Originally published in NYPRR March 2008] I am troubled by the court’s decision in Stern v. Bluestone (App. Div. 1st Dept., No. 1926 111895/05,...

Four Case Digests: May 2001

May 1, 2001

[Originally published in NYPRR May 2001] Firm Representing State Agency Not Disqualified from Suit Against State Covington and Burling (C&B) represents Brown &...

Counsel’s Prevention of Defendant’s Testimony Is Ineffective Assistance

February 1, 2003

By Lazar Emanuel [Originally published in NYPRR February 2003] The Sixth Amendment guarantees that “In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right…to...
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Non-Lawyer Practice & Access to Justice: The Upsolve Case

ABA Formal Opinion 489 Limits Restrictions on Departing Partners

Frankfurt Kurnit Litigation Ethics Summit “Game Show”

Aggressive Bargaining: The Legal and Ethical Boundaries of “Me Too”-era...

Protecting Your Fees: The Ethics of Fee Claims (at Frankfurt...

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

Practical Ethics Considerations for Lawyers Hired to Fix or Mitigate...

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

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Liebowitz Law Firm Ends Operations

Duty to Disclose Suspensions or Other Discipline to Clients

Non-Lawyer Practice & Access to Justice: The Upsolve Case

ABA Formal Opinion 489 Limits Restrictions on Departing Partners

Lawyer Starting Debt Action Is Debt Collector Under FDCPA

City Bar Maps Lawyers’ Role in Dealing with Auditors — Part II

Commentary: Questions Persist on Issue of Lawyer Ratings

Thumbnail Guide to Amended Advertising Rules

How to Avoid Disqualification in a Multi-Firm Beauty Contest

Commentary: “Stern v. Bluestone” Decision Troublesome

Four Case Digests: May 2001

Counsel’s Prevention of Defendant’s Testimony Is Ineffective Assistance

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