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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...
Personal Reassessment in a Hardscrabble Time

April 1, 2009

By Lazar Emanuel [Originally published in NYPRR April 2009] Hundreds of lawyers are suffering the anguish and trauma of job loss or lay-off. If you’re among them, you are...

Beware When Client Claims Breach of Fiduciary Duty

April 1, 2004

By Mary C. Daly [Originally published in NYPRR April 2004] In response to a local bar association’s initiative, you have agreed to mentor Junior Lawyer. After a few years...

Prospective Client Conflicts — Can Puzzle Be Solved?

January 1, 2005

By Roy Simon [Originally published in NYPRR January 2005] Should New York adopt a Disciplinary Rule to govern conflicts with prospective clients? If so, what should the...

Debt Collection Letter Ruled Deceptive

February 1, 2000

By Lazar Emanuel [Originally published in NYPRR February 2000] A federal judge has reminded lawyers who write consumer collection letters that they must look carefully at...
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