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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....
Tinker, Tailor, Lawyer, P.I.: Are Your Workplace Investigations Complying with the Law?

June 2, 2015

How Attorneys Conducting Workplace Investigations Can Comply with N.Y.’s Private Investigator Law & Rules of Professional Conduct By Ronald C. Minkoff, Lindsay Harris, and...

Do States’ IOLTA Programs Violate Fifth Amendment?

December 1, 2001

By Lazar Emanuel [Originally published in NYPRR December 2001] Over the last 20 years, virtually all 50 states have adopted programs creating...

Interviewing a Former Officer of Your Adversary

March 1, 2006

By Roy Simon [Originally published in NYPRR March 2006] May a lawyer who is litigating in New York courts freely interview an adversary’s former employees? Based on case...

City Bar Nixes Lawyer Taping

August 1, 2003

By Sarah Diane McShea [Originally published in NYPRR August 2003] That golden age, when law was practiced gently, with gentility, and by ladies and gentlemen, beckons like...
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