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By Lazar Emanuel [Originally published in NYPRR April 2007] This article discusses the potential impact on the mandatory retirement policies of many law firms of a case which is still wending its way through the federal courts. In 1999 — eight years...
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By Lazar Emanuel [Originally published in NYPRR March 2007] This article is the third and last in a series discussing the recommendations of the City Bar Task Force on the Lawyer’s Role in Corporate Governance. The recommendations are contained in a...
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By Lazar Emanuel [Originally published in NYPRR March 2007] Who among us does not know personally a number of lawyers in their 70s or 80s who complain bitterly about their forced retirement from a law firm to which they devoted a lifetime of loyalty...
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By Lazar Emanuel [Originally published in NYPRR February 2007] A careful reading of the text of the new Advertising Rules which became effective today, Feb. 1, 2007, discloses only a glancing reference by the Presiding Justices to an issue which must...
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By Lazar Emanuel [Originally published in NYPRR February 2007] In Part I of this article, published in January 2007, we summarized some of the “Best Practices” recommended by the City Bar Task Force on the Lawyer’s Role in Corporate Governance....
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By Lazar Emanuel [Originally published in NYPRR January 2007] A Task Force of the City Bar appointed by Bettina Plevan, former City Bar President, and chaired by Thomas H. Moreland, partner in Kramer Levin, has submitted a Report of 190 pages on the...
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By Lazar Emanuel [Originally published in NYPRR December 2006] Click on Google or any of the other search engines and search under Find a Lawyer. You’ll find page after page of for-profit websites offering to connect you with a lawyer in your area....
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By Lazar Emanuel [Originally published in NYPRR December 2006] (This is the third of a series of articles on the condition of New York’s system for providing counsel to indigent defendants.) Constrained by the Constitutional, legislative,...
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By Lazar Emanuel [Originally published in NYPRR December 2006] The ABA has issued a new Ethics Opinion on an issue that has apparently never been decided in New York: May a lawyer representing a client in a matter communicate with the adversary’s...
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By Lazar Emanuel [Originally published in NYPRR November 2006] Writing for a unanimous court, Judge Eugene L. Nardelli has set forth the Court’s reasons for voiding a provision in a lawyer’s retainer agreement. The provision was intended to enable...
