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 Roy Simon [Originally published in NYPRR September 2007] May your firm’s retainer agreement include a provision securing a client’s advance consent to a conflict of...
By Roy Simon [Originally published in NYPRR February 2006] Is it possible for a client to ratify an attorney’s unconscionable fee agreement? That question is so thorny...
By Lazar Emanuel [Originally published in NYPRR March 1999] [Author’s note: In preparation for this article, NYPRR examined the websites of six Manhattan law firms. Of...
By Lazar Emanuel [Originally published in NYPRR May 2006] Two fairly recent but accelerating developments in the practice of law have prompted the ethics committee of the...