Month: June 1968

Ethics Opinion 081

NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION Professional Ethics Committee Opinion Opinion #81 – 06/06/1968 (16-68) advertisements Modified by 106 Modified by 403 Topic: Directory Listings Digest: Telephone and city directory listings Canon: Former Canon 27 QUESTION The Committee has received a request for amplification of “Professional Ethic-et #3” on Listings in Directories as published in the … Continued

Ethics Opinion 080

NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION Professional Ethics Committee Opinion Opinion #80 – 06/06/1968 (25-67a) existing clients, duty of lawyer, employment, intermediary, labor, lawyer referral service, legal services, solicitation Modified by 416 Topic:  Group legal service programs Digest:  Validity of group legal service program to handle grievance claims of dissident union members Canons:  Former Canons 27, … Continued

Ethics Opinion 079

NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION Professional Ethics Committee Opinion Opinion #79 – 06/06/1968 (12-68) appearance, conflict of interests, disqualification, judges Topic:  Judges – relationship with relative and former partners. Digest:  Judicial ethics – judges avoidance of impropriety in relationship with relatives and former partner.Canon:  Judicial Ethics 4, 13, 26, 29A judge asks three questions, QUESTION … Continued

Ethics Opinion 078

NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION Professional Ethics Committee Opinion Opinion #78 – 06/06/1968 (8-68) existing clients, conflict of interests, corporation, duty of lawyer, employment, intermediary, labor, law practice, legal services, solicitation Topic: Solicitation; lay intermediaries; corporation furnishing legal service to corporation employees Digest: Improper for an attorney to accept retainer from corporate client to represent … Continued

Ethics Opinion 077

NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION Professional Ethics Committee Opinion Opinion #77 – 06/06/1968 (6-68) advertisements, newspapers and news media, solicitation Topic:  Advertising. Notice of change of office location Digest:  Erection of public sign at site of proposed new office building Canon: Former Canon 27 QUESTION An attorney who is required to move from his present … Continued

Ethics Opinion 076

NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION Professional Ethics Committee Opinion Opinion #76 – 06/06/1968 (25-67) existing clients, corporation, duty of lawyer, employment, intermediary, labor, law practice, legal services, representation Modified by 416Topic:  Group Legal Services Programs Digest:  Validity of group legal service programs under recent United States Supreme Court decisions Canon: Former Canon 27, 35, 47 … Continued