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By Roy Simon [Originally published in NYPRR October 2008] Last month’s column (NYPRR Sept. 2008) noted that at its August 2008 annual meeting, the ABA House of Delegates was scheduled to debate proposals to permit screening to remedy imputed...
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By Roy Simon [Originally published in NYPRR September 2008] As campaign season gets into full swing after Labor Day, do you wonder whether your vote — or any single vote — can make a difference? At the ABA House of Delegates last month, one vote...
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By Roy Simon [Originally published in NYPRR June 2002] It’s almost summertime, and summertime is the time for screens — window screens, sunscreens, conflicts screens. Can screens cure conflicts of interest in New York that would otherwise...
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[Originally published in NYPRR April 2002] Ohio: Agreement By Law Firm to Pay ‘Promotion’ Fee to Real Estate Agency An Ohio law firm proposed to pay an annual fee to a real estate agency and to discount its fees to the agency’s customers in...
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By Steven C. Crane [Originally published in NYPRR January 2001] The American Bar Association produced the Canons of Professional Ethics in 1908 and the Model Code of Professional Responsibility in 1969. It introduced the Model Rules of Professional...
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By Barbara Gillers [Originally published in NYPRR September 1999] The recent amendments to DR 5-108 modernize New York’s rule governing the imputation of conflicts when a lawyer changes firms. The New York rule now conforms to ABA Model Rule 1.9(b),...
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By Kirsten Christophe & Lazar Emanuel [Originally published in NYPRR May 1999] In the first article in this series on the temporary or “contract” lawyer, we dealt with the safeguards available to the hiring partner in screening for existing or...
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By Sarah Diane McShea [Originally published in NYPRR December 1998] The first article in this series on law firm management problems (see, NYPRR May 1998) surveyed disciplinary cases in which partners and associates in large firms had been disciplined...
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By Roy Simon [Originally published in NYPRR September 1998] In Kassis v. Teacher’s Ins. & Annuity Assn. [1998 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 6968], the First Department affirmed a trial court’s refusal to disqualify a law firm that hired one of the...
