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 March 2003] On Nov. 21, 2002, to comply with the Congressional mandate in §307 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, the SEC...
By Roy Simon [Originally published in NYPRR October 2002] For the legal ethics field, Summer 2002 was one of the most significant on record. The three weeks ending Aug. 15,...
By Edward Rosenthal & Tyler Maulsby — In January 2022, my Professional Responsibility and Ethics partner Tyler Maulsby and I wrote about whether and how Richard...
By Brad Rudin & Betsy Hutchings [Originally published in NYPRR March 2006] In contrast to American principles allowing counsel to confer with a witness about the...