The NEW YORK LEGAL ETHICS REPORTER is a free, online archive of articles describing developments in New York-area ethics and professional responsibility law.
By Nicole Hyland — This article was originally published on May 11, 2020. The Covid-19 crisis has upended the legal industry, forcing law firms to adapt quickly to an...
By Nicole Hyland — This article was originally published on May 6, 2020. The Covid-19 crisis has upended the legal industry, forcing law firms to adapt quickly to an...
By Nicole Hyland — This article was originally published on May 4, 2020. The Covid-19 crisis has upended the legal industry, forcing law firms to adapt quickly to an...
By Nicole Hyland — This article was originally published on April 29, 2020. The Covid-19 crisis has upended the legal industry, forcing law firms to adapt quickly to an...
By Lazar Emanuel [Originally published in NYPRR November 2008] Prior to Jan. 1, 2002, the only lawyer/client fee disputes requiring submission to arbitration were disputes...
[Originally published in NYPRR July 2008] The Advisory Committee on Judicial ethics (www.nycourts.gov/ip/acje) responds to written inquiries from New York State’s full-...
By Jeremy R. Feinberg [Originally published in NYPRR July 2008] For all of the scholarly and practical literature written about ethics issues, there is relatively little...
By Roy Simon [Originally published in NYPRR July 2008] Over the years, NYPRR has carried many columns about the no-contact rule, codified as DR 7-104 in New York (and as...
By Lazar Emanuel [Originally published in NYPRR January 2007] A Task Force of the City Bar appointed by Bettina Plevan, former City Bar President, and chaired by Thomas H....
By Lazar Emanuel [Originally published in NYPRR August 2002] What are a lawyer’s obligations in either of the following circumstances? Example One: A law firm recovered a...
By Lazar Emanuel [Originally published in NYPRR August 2001] The ABA’s Commission on Multijurisdictional Practice has conducted the third and last of its public hearings...
By Sarah Diane McShea [Originally published in NYPRR September 2002] For more than a century, New York has adhered to the strict rule that lawyers convicted of felony...