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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 knotty ethical dilemmas for a lawyer who represents a closely-held or family business. This column looks...
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By Barry H. Berke & Ronald W. Adelman [Originally published in NYPRR November 2000] Lawyers rely on paralegals to perform a wide range of tasks. Some limit the work of paralegals to organizing and maintaining files. Others call upon them to render...
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By Mary C. Daly [Originally published in NYPRR October 2000] Representing closely-held and family businesses is a vital part of many lawyers’ practices. These businesses frequently purchase legal services in a wide array of transactional and...
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Comments Off on “Citrin” Case: Do Disbarred Lawyers Have Constitutional Rights?
By Hal R. Lieberman [Originally published in NYPRR October 2000] In 1987, mired in debt, Nassau County attorney Peter Citrin became involved in a fraudulent mortgage scheme, devised by others, so he could generate “income” to pay off gambling...
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By Roy Simon [Originally published in NYPRR October 2000] In July 2000, the Committee on Professional and Judicial Ethics of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York issued an important opinion about the right of a lawyer to accept stock,...
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By Richard F. Ziegler & Kristin Collins [Originally published in NYPRR October 2000] Incivility can be costly to an attorney practicing in federal court if the judge determines that the attorney has crossed the line from “zealous advocacy” to...
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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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Comments Off on The Heat Subsides: Future of MDPs in New York
By Steven C. Krane [Originally published in NYPRR September 2000] In NYPRR July 2000 issue, we reported on what were then imminent debates in the Houses of Delegates of the New York State Bar Association (NYSBA) and the American Bar Association (ABA)...
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Comments Off on Charging Interest on Unpaid Fees or Disbursements
By Roy Simon [Originally published in NYPRR September 2000] May lawyers ethically charge interest on unpaid legal fees? May they charge interest on unpaid disbursements in contingent fee cases? In a pair of opinions issued in July 2000, the ethics...
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By Roy Simon [Originally published in NYPRR August 2000] During my first few years of practice, my firm and its co-counsel were defending a large client against a government lawsuit. A name partner in the co-counsel firm was in charge of document...
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