NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION Committee on Professional Ethics Opinion #486 – 06/19/1978 (24-78) existing clients, confidences, disclosure, duty of lawyer, secrets, suicide Topic: Confidences of client; suicide, disclosure of intent to commit Digest: Guidelines for lawyer whose client discloses intent to commit suicide. Lawyer may take appropriate action to prevent suicide, including disclosure of … Continued

NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION Committee on Professional Ethics Opinion #485 – 06/02/1978 (19-78) existing clients, confidences, disclosure, legal services, secrets Topic: Confidential communications; disclosure of client confidences by Legal Aid lawyers to not-for-profit research organization Digest: Not proper for Legal Aid lawyers to divulge clients’ confidences to not-for-profit research organization in absence of clients’ … Continued