NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION Professional Ethics Committee Opinion Opinion #85 – 07/15/1968 (14-68) advertisements, holding out, patent practice, specialization, trademark practice Topic: Letterhead, announcements, patent attorney Digest: Designation as patent attorney on letterhead, announcements and their distribution Canons: Former Canons 27, 46 QUESTION The inquirer is a member of the New York State Bar, … Continued
NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION Professional Ethics Committee Opinion Opinion #84 – 07/12/1968 (2-68) existing clients, conflict of interests, corporation, intermediary, law practice Topic: House Counsel Digest: Legal Services to friends, corporate employees, other corporations. Canons: Former Canon 35, 47 QUESTION An attorney who is a fulltime house counsel to a corporation employed on a … Continued
NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION Professional Ethics Committee Opinion Opinion #83 – 07/10/1968 advertisements, newspapers and news media Topic: Announcement cards Digest: Former Association on announcement card; to who may cards be mailed; publicity of opening office Canons: Former Canon 27 QUESTION An attorney is leaving his present partnership and opening his own office in … Continued
NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION Professional Ethics Committee Opinion Opinion #81 – 06/06/1968 (16-68) advertisements Modified by 106 Modified by 403 Topic: Directory Listings Digest: Telephone and city directory listings Canon: Former Canon 27 QUESTION The Committee has received a request for amplification of “Professional Ethic-et #3” on Listings in Directories as published in the … Continued
NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION Professional Ethics Committee Opinion Opinion #80 – 06/06/1968 (25-67a) existing clients, duty of lawyer, employment, intermediary, labor, lawyer referral service, legal services, solicitation Modified by 416 Topic: Group legal service programs Digest: Validity of group legal service program to handle grievance claims of dissident union members Canons: Former Canons 27, … Continued
NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION Professional Ethics Committee Opinion Opinion #79 – 06/06/1968 (12-68) appearance, conflict of interests, disqualification, judges Topic: Judges – relationship with relative and former partners. Digest: Judicial ethics – judges avoidance of impropriety in relationship with relatives and former partner.Canon: Judicial Ethics 4, 13, 26, 29A judge asks three questions, QUESTION … Continued
NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION Professional Ethics Committee Opinion Opinion #78 – 06/06/1968 (8-68) existing clients, conflict of interests, corporation, duty of lawyer, employment, intermediary, labor, law practice, legal services, solicitation Topic: Solicitation; lay intermediaries; corporation furnishing legal service to corporation employees Digest: Improper for an attorney to accept retainer from corporate client to represent … Continued
NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION Professional Ethics Committee Opinion Opinion #77 – 06/06/1968 (6-68) advertisements, newspapers and news media, solicitation Topic: Advertising. Notice of change of office location Digest: Erection of public sign at site of proposed new office building Canon: Former Canon 27 QUESTION An attorney who is required to move from his present … Continued
NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION Professional Ethics Committee Opinion Opinion #76 – 06/06/1968 (25-67) existing clients, corporation, duty of lawyer, employment, intermediary, labor, law practice, legal services, representation Modified by 416Topic: Group Legal Services Programs Digest: Validity of group legal service programs under recent United States Supreme Court decisions Canon: Former Canon 27, 35, 47 … Continued
NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION Professional Ethics Committee Opinion Opinion # 82 – 05/21/1968 (3-68) appearance, conflict of interests, criminal practice, employee, partnership, part-time public, prosecutors, public Topic: Conflict of Interests; Municipal attorneys Digest: Partners or associates defending criminal matters in county where one associate is part-time assistant district attorney Canons: Former Canons 6, 37 … Continued