NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION Professional Ethics Committee Opinions Opinion #207 – 10/26/1971 (24-71) confidences, disclosure, duty of lawyer, fraud Topic: Duty of lawyer to disclose information concerning client to governmental agency Digest: Unless fraud is involved, lawyer has no affirmative duty to disclose information to governmental agency Code: DR 7-102(B)(1) QUESTION Does a lawyer … Continued

NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION Professional Ethics Committee Opinions Opinion #205 – 10/26/1971 (40-71) adverse interests, children, confidences, conflict of interests, client consent, employment, representation Topic: Conflict of Interest Digest: Improper to represent both estate and claimant against estate in negligence action Code: EC 5-15; DR 5-105 QUESTION Where a lawyer represents the estate of … Continued

NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION Professional Ethics Committee Opinions Opinion #204 – 10/26/1971 (37-71) education, self-laudation Topic: Authorship by Attorney of Educational Legal Cassette Digest: Attorney may participate in a legal educational series commercially sponsored Code: EC 2-2 DR 2-101(B) (5); 2-105 (A) (1); 2-105(A) (4) QUESTION May an attorney be retained by a corporation … Continued

NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION Professional Ethics Committee Opinions Opinion #203 – 10/26/1971 (23-71) appearance, conflict of interetss, employee, judges, partnership Topic: Part-time judge Digest: Partner and associate of a part-time judge have same prohibitions as the judge Code: EC 9-2, 9-6 QUESTION May a partner or an associate of a part-time judge practice law … Continued