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Comments Off on BREAKING: Bill to Repeal NY’s Physical Office Requirement Advances In Legislature
By Tyler Maulsby — This article was originally published April 28, 2021. Last summer, we reported on a bill that was making its way through the New York State Legislature that would repeal New York’s Judiciary Law Section 470 (“Section...
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By Tyler Maulsby — This article was originally published July 1, 2021. Earlier this month, a New York Appellate Court refused to dismiss a law firm’s claims against a lawyer for breach of a non-solicitation provision in the lawyer’s...
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Comments Off on What You May Have Overlooked in the Giuliani Decision
By Ronald C. Minkoff — This article was originally published July 2, 2o21. The decision by New York’s Appellate Division, First Judicial Department in Matter of Rudolph W. Giuliani, 2021 WL 2583536 (App. Div. 1st Dep’t June 24, 2021), was a true...
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Comments Off on NYSBA Ethics Opinion Gives Green Light To Lawyers’ Involvement With Marijuana Businesses
By Tyler Maulsby — This article was originally published July 10, 2021. In the past ten years, seventeen states and the District of Columbia have legalized the recreational use of marijuana. Earlier this year, New York joined the list when it passed...
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Comments Off on Rudy Loses Again
By Ronald C. Minkoff — This article was originally published July 11, 2021. Rudy Giuliani has never been one to shy away from the public eye. In light of his recent interim suspension from the New York Bar, he has certainly been getting all the...
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Comments Off on California NDAs Tested by Attorney In-House Move
By Jesse Klinger — This article was originally published July 20, 2021. Attorneys regularly leave their law firms to work in-house for clients. Law firms often encourage these moves because placing firm attorneys at a client can bolster or solidify...
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By Tyler Maulsby — This article was originally published October 8, 2021. If the legal profession learned one thing during the pandemic it is that lawyers can practice the law of their home jurisdictions from across state lines. For the better part...
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Comments Off on Lawyers Beware: Criticizing Judges Can Be Hazardous to Your Professional Health
By John B. Harris — This article was originally published February 1, 2022. There are times in most lawyers’ careers when they encounter judges who outrage them. They may believe the judge’s rulings are profoundly wrong. They may believe the...
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Comments Off on Can You “Settle” a Disciplinary Complaint? First Department Says “No”
By Tyler Maulsby — This article was originally published February 9, 2022. In a recent decision from the Supreme Court, Appellate Division First Department, the court suspended attorney Wayne F. Crowe for three months for, among other things,...
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Comments Off on Clients, Take Heed: Your Lawyers Don’t Have to Tell You That They’ve Been Suspended by Other Courts or Facing Discipline at Home
By John B. Harris — This article was originally published March 23, 2022. Attorney-client questions of the day: Are lawyers obliged to disclose to clients they have been suspended in another jurisdiction based upon multiple acts of incompetence? Or...
