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By Tyler Maulsby, Associate, Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz Here are summaries of ethics opinions issued November 2016. The opinions were issued by the NYSBA Committee on Professional Ethics. NYLER will continue to provide updates on new ethics opinions...
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By Tyler Maulsby, Associate, Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz Here are summaries of ethics opinions issued October 2016 and January 2017. The opinions were issued by the NYSBA Committee on Professional Ethics and the NYC Bar Association Committee on...
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By Tyler Maulsby, Associate, Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz Here are summaries of ethics opinions issued March and December 2016. The opinions were issued by the NYSBA Committee on Professional Ethics and the American Bar Association Standing Committee on...
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By Tyler Maulsby This past July (2016), the First Department became the first appeals court in New York to recognize the “intra-firm privilege,” holding that certain communications between a lawyer and his or her firm’s General Counsel are protected by...
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By Tyler Maulsby, Associate, Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz Here are summaries of ethics opinions issued January, February, and August 2016. The opinions were issued by the NYSBA Committee on Professional Ethics and the NYC Bar Association Committee on...
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By Tyler Maulsby, Associate, Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz Here are summaries of ethics opinions issued in December 2015 and January 2016. The opinions were issued by the NYSBA Committee on Professional Ethics. NYLER will continue to provide updates on...
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By Nicole I. Hyland and Tyler Maulsby As multijurisdictional practice continues to expand, lawyers in different states regularly work together on a litigation or transaction. For example, a New York lawyer handling a complex securities lawsuit may find it...
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By Ronald C. Minkoff and Tyler Maulsby An attorney violates Section 487 of the N.Y. Judiciary Law (Section 487) when she or he “is guilty of any deceit or collusion or consents to any deceit or collusion with intent to deceive the court or any party…”...
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By Nicole I. Hyland and Tyler Maulsby In 1965, Norman F. Dacey published a book, How to Avoid Probate, which sold 600,000 copies in two years. New York Cty. Lawyers’ Assn. v. Dacey, 54 Misc.2d 564 (N.Y. Sup. Ct. 1967) affd. in part, modified in part, 28...
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By Tyler Maulsby, Associate, Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz Here are summaries of two ethics opinions issued in January and February 2015. The first opinion was issued by the NYSBA Committee on Professional Ethics, and the second by the NYC Bar...
