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June/July 2016 Issue

July 5, 2016

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 2: Legal Fee Forfeiture

July 5, 2016

By Ronald C. Minkoff In our February 2016 edition, we published the first of a three-part series of articles on “How to Lose Your Legal Fees.” That article examined...

N.Y. Court of Appeals Narrowly Interprets Common Interest Exception to Attorney-Client Privilege

July 5, 2016

By Ronald C. Minkoff, Nicole Hyland & LiJia Gong The New York Court of Appeals issued a decision on June 9, 2016 in Ambac Assurance Corp. v. Countrywide Home Loans...

Recent N.Y. Ethics Opinions: June/July 2016

July 5, 2016

By Tyler Maulsby, Associate, Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz Here are summaries of ethics opinions issued in December 2015 and January 2016. The opinions were issued by the...
Threatening to File Grievance Against Opposing Counsel

November 1, 2005

By Roy Simon [Originally published in NYPRR November 2005] May you ever ethically threaten to file a grievance against opposing counsel? This column explores that...

New York’s Catch-All Rule: Is It Needed? Part 1

October 1, 2015

By Hal R. Lieberman and Harvey Prager New York is one of only five states where the Rules of Professional Conduct prohibit a lawyer, without more, from “engag[ing] in any other...

Law Firm LLPs Carry No Guarantees

September 1, 2003

By Roy Simon [Originally published in NYPRR September 2003] If your law firm is organized as a limited liability partnership — an LLP — you are probably feeling much...

Ethical Issues in E-Discovery

April 1, 2009

By Ronald C. Minkoff [Originally published in NYPRR April 2009] The growth of e-discovery has created a host of ethical problems for litigators, already over-burdened with...
Conflicts of Interest: An Overview

November 1, 1998

By Mary C. Daly [Originally published in NYPRR November 1998] Probably no other provisions in the New York Code of Professional Responsibility create as much day-to-day...

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...

Alleging Fraud in Withholding Knowledge of Malpractice

February 1, 2003

By Lazar Emanuel [Originally published in NYPRR ] Plaintiff Ferdinand sued lawyers Crecca & Blair on account of their services in connection with a landlord/tenant...

Lawyer — First Know Thyself

March 1, 2011

By Kathleen Brady [Originally published in NYPRR March 2011] In last month’s column (NYPRR Feb. 2011), I discussed the importance of self-assessment as a first step in...
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