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 July 2001] Last month (NYPRR June 2001), my article described five court decisions construing the so-called “no-contact”...
By Roy Simon [Originally published in NYPRR June 2010] On May 4, 2010, effective immediately, the Administrative Board of the Courts amended Rule 6.4 of the New York Rules...
By Roy Simon [Originally published in NYPRR September 2006] Suppose your law firm represents a number of health insurers and has earned a strong reputation in the health...
By Nicole Hyland — This article was originally published April 16, 2020. On April 10, 2020, the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Ethics Committee issued Formal Opinion...