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Comments Off on Three NYSBA Ethics Opinions Interpret New MDP Rules
By Mary C. Daly [Originally published in NYPRR August 2002] You have identified a non-legal service that you want to extend to your clients and to others. For the purposes of this article, let’s say that the service will consist of mortgage brokerage. You organize a new corporation called New York Mortgage Corp. and [&hellip...
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Comments Off on Nassau County Bar Issues Ethics Opinions 2002-01 & 2002-02
[Originally published in NYPRR July 2002] The Committee on Professional Ethics of the Nassau County Bar Association has issued two new ethics opinions, both dated March 26, 2002. Both present novel issues. Opinion 2002-01 Lawyers A and B...
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Comments Off on Comparing Two Decisions on Lawyer Disqualification
[Originally published in NYPRR July 2002] This is a review of two lawsuits with virtually identical facts but with strikingly different results. Both cases deal with lawyer disqualification in conflicts between former and current clients. The first was...
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Comments Off on ABA Commission Reports on Multijurisdictional Practice
By Lazar Emanuel [Originally published in NYPRR July 2002] The ABA’s Commission on Multijurisdictional Practice has issued its final recommendations for the control of multijurisdictional practice by lawyers. The Commission defines...
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Comments Off on ABA Adopts Three New Rules
By Roy Simon [Originally published in NYPRR July 2002] At its February 2002 Mid-Year Meeting, the American Bar Association (ABA) adopted three brand new ethics rules that are now officially incorporated into the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct....
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Comments Off on First Department Okays Malpractice Suit Against Rhode Island Lawyer
[Originally published in NYPRR July 2002] The Appellate Division, First Department has reversed a decision of the lower court and subjected a Rhode Island lawyer to its long-arm jurisdiction in a suit for legal malpractice arising from a New York...
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Comments Off on Should Lawyers Serve as Corporate Directors?
By Ronald C. Minkoff [Originally published in NYPRR June 2002] In the wake of revelations about the cozy relationship between Enron and its regular outside counsel, Vinson & Elkins, corporate lawyers should already know to be cautious about getting...
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Comments Off on Responding to Client’s Fraud: The Controlling Rules
By Linda Galler [Originally published in NYPRR June 2002] That should you do if a client has used your legal services to commit fraud or engage in a criminal act? That question was recently addressed by the Nassau County Bar Association Committee on...
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Comments Off on Enron Debacle — A Primer for N.Y. Lawyers
By Mary C. Daly [Originally published in NYPRR June 2002] The collapse of the Enron Corporation and the indictment of Arthur Andersen have generated a great deal of communal soul searching about how to establish and maintain an ethical environment in a...
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Comments Off on Can Screens Cure Conflicts in New York?
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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