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 August 2001] The judges of the Appellate Divisions of the Supreme Court have amended the rules governing lawyers who become...
By Laura L. Smith [Originally published in NYPRR April 2008] Jeremy Feinberg’s two-part article on Judicial Ethics in New York State (NYPRR, Sept. & Oct. 2007)...
By Roy Simon [Originally published in NYPRR February 2005] This is a tale of two cities — and an epic battle over a single explosive document. In Miron v. BDO Seidman,...
By Roy Simon [Originally published in NYPRR April 2011] April 1st marks NYPRR’s 13th birthday — which means that NYPRR is celebrating its bar mitzvah. I’m going to...