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By Lazar Emanuel [Originally published in NYPRR April 2007] [Editor’s note: This is the first of a series on misappropriation of client funds by lawyers holding escrow deposits.] Although the number of offending lawyers is small, and the total of...
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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 Roy Simon [Originally published in NYPRR April 2007] A midst all the press and distress about the new and amended lawyer advertising rules that took effect on Feb. 1, 2007, little has been said about a part of the rules package that has no obvious...
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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 Roy Simon [Originally published in NYPRR March 2007] On Dec. 19, 2006, the Second Department conjured up the ghost of an issue that I thought had been laid to rest long ago. In Shaya B. Pacific, LLC v. Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker,...
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By E. Joshua Rosenkranz & Ronald C. Minkoff [Originally published in NYPRR March 2007] [Editor’s note: This article was submitted in response to an article by Lazar Emanuel in NYPRR Feb. 2007.] Last month, the American Lawyer published a list of...
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By Roy Simon [Originally published in NYPRR February 2007] On Jan. 4, 2007, the courts announced extensive amendments to the rules governing lawyer advertising in New York. This article briefly summarizes the new rules, which are effective as of Feb....
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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....
