NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION Committee on Professional Ethics Opinion #282 – 01/25/1973 (3-73) employee, legal fees, retirement Topic: Profit-Sharing Retirement Plan; Inclusion of Non-Lawyer Employees Digest: If not prohibited by statute, not improper to include non-lawyer employees in law firm’s profit-sharing retirement plan Code:  DR 3-102(A); EC 3-8 QUESTION May a lawyer or law … Continued

NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION Committee on Professional Ethics Opinion #281- 01/25/1973 (2-73) deceased attorney, legal fees, partnership, retirement Topic: Payment to Retired Partner or Estate of Deceased Partner Digest: Not improper if not prohibited by statute to pay to retired partner or estate of deceased partner, an amount measured by earnings accrued after retirement … Continued

NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION Committee on Professional Ethics Opinion #280 – 01/25/1973 (69-72) judges, partnership, part-time public official, prosecutors, town, town/village Topic: Town Justice as Partner of Attorney for Town Digest: An attorney may not hold the position of town justice when his partner is charged with responsibility for criminal prosecution in behalf of … Continued

NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION Committee on Professional Ethics Opinion #279 – 01/25/1973 (67-72) advertisements, deceased attorney, name, partnership, use of Topic: Firm Name; Letterhead; Deceased Partners Digest: Proper to continue names of deceased partners in firm name and to list on letterhead of bona fide successor firm Code:  DR 2-102(A)(4); 2-102(B) EC 2-11; Former … Continued

NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION Committee on Professional Ethics Opinion #278 – 01/25/1973 (59-72) Topic: Part-time County Attorney; Conflicts Digest: Circumstances under which partners and associates of part-time county attorney may represent private clients in Family Court Code: EC 5-15; DR 5-105; Canon 9 QUESTION Under what circumstances may a part-time county attorney or his … Continued