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 2011] Since April 29, 2011, questions raised by practitioners have prompted four Ethics Opinions from the State Bar...
By Lazar Emanuel [Originally published in NYPRR December 1999] N.Y. State Opinion 723 (1999) The New York State Bar Association issued Ethics Opinion 723 on Oct. 12, 1999....
By Roy Simon [Originally published in NYPRR April 2003] Does your law firm check for conflicts of interest when it hires secretaries and paralegals? It should, because...
By Roy Simon [Originally published in NYPRR July 2005] The Second Circuit decided a case, Hempstead Video, Inc. v. Incorporated Village of Valley Stream, 2005 WL 1274244...