Month: June 1990

Opinion 611

NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION Committee on Professional Ethics Opinion #611  06/20/1990 (3-90) Dual representation, multiple representation, real estate Topic: Multiple representation, real estate transaction, seller and lender Digest: Attorney should not represent both the seller and lender in the same transaction except under unusual circumstances and unless the conditions of DR 5-105(C) are met … Continued

Opinion 610

NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION Committee on Professional Ethics Opinion #610- 06/20/1990 (2-90) Topic: Attorney and client; conflicts of interest; wills; executors; beneficiaries Digest: Only in limited circumstances may an attorney-draftsman prepare a will in which the attorney-draftsman is named both as executor and as a beneficiary Code: DR 5-101(A); EC 5-5, 5-6 QUESTION May … Continued