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 Ronald C. Minkoff and Tyler Maulsby An attorney violates Section 487 of the N.Y. Judiciary Law (Section 487) when she or he “is guilty of any deceit or collusion or consents...
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...
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...
By Roy Simon [Originally published in NYPRR September 2009] This month’s column, which continues my series of columns on the new New York Rules of Professional Conduct,...