NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION Committee on Professional Ethics Opinion #490 – 07/31/1978 (26A-78) confidences, client consent, duty of lawyer, legal services, partnership, secrets Topic: Confidences and secrets; independent professional judgment; legal service organization Digest: Staff attorneys of legal service organization should not be required to report to its board of directors on the manner … Continued

NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION Committee on Professional Ethics Opinion #489 – 07/31/1978 (26-78) confidences, conflict of interests, client consent, duty of lawyer, employment, legal services, partnership Topic: Conflict of interest; representation of adverse party; legal service organization Digest: Neither lawyer-member of legal service organization’s board of directors nor any lawyer associated with his firm … Continued

NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION Committee on Professional Ethics Opinion #488 – 07/17/1978 (35-78) advertisements, law degree, name, use of Topic:  Academic degrees; advertising and publicity; puffery Digest: Lawyer may display and publicize LL.B. or J.D., but not both degrees Code:  DR 2-101(A), (B) and (C)(1) QUESTION May a lawyer who has been awarded a … Continued

NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION Committee on Professional Ethics     Opinion #487 – 07/10/1978 (33-78 accounting, advertisements, holding out, labor, law, news, partner, self-specialization )Topic: Advertising and publicity; identification of areas of practice; representation of experience Digest: Advertising may contain truthful statements concerning lawyer’s experience, but special care should be taken to avoid ambiguities tending to … Continued