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By Roy D. Simon, Distinguished Professor of Legal Ethics Emeritus I had the privilege of working with Lazar Emanuel from the time he first conceived of New York Professional Responsibility Reporter (NYPRR). He called me to discuss his idea late in 1997, and I...
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By Roy Simon [Originally published in NYPRR September 2002] When I was a first year law student at NYU in 1974, one of the first law review articles I read was Frederick D. Lipman’s The SEC’s Reluctant Police Force: A New Role for Lawyers, 49 NYU...
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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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By Roy Simon [Originally published in NYPRR November 1998] Ethics issues arise in your law practice every day. Most of them you can resolve fairly easily, usually by looking at the New York lawyer’s Code of Professional Responsibility (which is...
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By Steven C. Krane [Originally published in NYPRR July 1998] To paraphrase Yogi Berra, 90 percent of legal ethics is one-half issue spotting. Many lawyers violate ethical or legal principles simply because they are not aware that there is a rule...
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By Sarah Diane McShea [Originally published in NYPRR July 1998] Until recently, there was a general consensus in the legal profession that ethical lapses were primarily a problem for solo practitioners and small firm lawyers and that lawyers in large...
