Month: March 1979

Opinion 508

NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION Committee on Professional Ethics Opinion #508 – 03/29/1979 (80-78) advertisements, education, mailling, solicitation Topic: Advertising; solicitation; legal seminar; promotion by mail to non-lawyers Digest: In the absence of judicial holding to the contrary, law firm may organize and promote by mail legal seminar designed for non­lawyers Code: EC 1-5, 2-2; … Continued

Opinion 507

NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION Committee on Professional Ethics Opinion #507 – 03/27/1979 (69-78) advertisements, mailing, newspaper, self-laudation, solicitation Topic: Advertising; solicitation of employment; letters to non-lawyers Digest: A lawyer’s advertisement which satisfies the test of DR 2-101 may properly be mailed to non-lawyers with whom the lawyer maintains no special relationship, in the absence … Continued