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By Roy Simon Originally published in NYPRR September 2010] Does a lawyer for a partnership represent the general partners? a recent case granting a motion to disqualify spurred me to re-examine this issue. I found surprisingly few New York cases...
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By Lazar Emanuel [Originally published in NYPRR December 2002] A lawyer who joins and participates as a member of a law firm organized as a professional corporation may not obtain a “partnership” accounting from the other lawyers in the firm....
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By Steven Wechsler [Originally published in NYPRR December 2001] [Editor’s Note: Professor Wechsler has prepared a review of recent developments in Professional Responsibility, to be published in the 2000–01 Survey of New York Law in the Syracuse...
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By Roy Simon [Originally published in NYPRR February 2001] In last month’s NYPRR (Jan 2001), I discussed what you can do until the proposed amendments to DRs 106 and 107 and several related changes in the Code are actually adopted by the Appellate...
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By Mary C. Daly [Originally published in NYPRR November 2000] [Editor’s note: This is the second installment of a two-part article.] Last month’s column [NYPRR Oct. 2002] explored how the entity theory of representation can trigger especially...
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By Ronald C. Minkoff [Originally published in NYPRR September 2000] If they ever existed, the halcyon days of hallowed law partnerships, when those who survived to make partner loyally labored for the same firm for their entire professional lives, are...
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By Roy Simon [Originally published in NYPRR April 2000] Suppose your law firm opened an out-of-town office a few years ago and now finds that the office is unprofitable. You run the numbers and realize that the firm’s most senior partners could make...
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By Roy Simon [Originally published in NYPRR December 1999] Here are two New York County Lawyers Association Opinions, issued June 30, 1999, discussing issues that arise when a judge joins a firm (727), and when the only partner with a particular specialty...
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By Steven C. Krane [Originally published in NYPRR November 1998] [Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of articles by Steven C. Krane, on the departing partner. This article was prompted by the decision in September 1998, of Justice Herman...
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By Steven C. Krane [Originally published in NYPRR September 1998] [Editor’s note: This is the first of two articles on the problems that arise when a partner decides to leave a firm. This article deals with the responsibilities of the partner who...
