Month: October 1973

Ethics Opinion 307

NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION Committee on Professional Ethics Opinion #307 – 10/17/1973 (37-73) advertisements, appearance, business interests, corporation, dual practice, solicitation Topic: Dual practice of law and consumer counseling service Digest: A lawyer may conduct a consumer counseling service at a separate address under the guidelines Code: Canon 9; DR 2-101, 2-102, 2-102(E), 2-103, … Continued

Ethics Opinion 306

NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION Committee on Professional Ethics Opinion #306 – 10/17/1973 (34-73) judges, judicial campaigns, political activity, town Topic: Judges; Partisan politics Digest: A candidate for the office of town justice of a second class town may not campaign beyond the scope of the Code of Judicial Conduct Judicial Code: Canon 7(B)(1)(c) QUESTION … Continued

Ethics Opinion 305

NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION Committee on Professional Ethics Opinion #305 – 10/17/1973 (33-73) advice, appearance, prospective clients, existing clients, consent of, employment, private client, review, solicitation, superseding lawyer Topic: Superseding lawyers; encroaching on professional employment of other lawyers; conferring with prospective client already represented by counsel for the same matter Digest: Lawyer may properly … Continued

Ethics Opinion 304

NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION Committee on Professional Ethics Opinion #304 – 10/17/1973 (31-73) bar, existing clients, delegation, employee, law clerk, law practice, law student, paralegals Topic: Law clerks, paralegals and other non-lawyer employees; taking of deposition by clerk or non-lawyer employee Digest: Improper to delegate taking of deposition to clerk or other non-lawyer employee … Continued

Ethics Opinion 303

NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION Committee on Professional Ethics Opinion #303 – 10/17/1973 (29-73) existing clients, confidences, conflict of, employment, part-time public, public, representation, retirement Topic: Conflict of Interest Digest: Lawyer may represent client against former client only where matter is unrelated and confidential information obtained in former matter is not relevant Code:  EC 9-3; … Continued