Category: Ethics Opinions

Ethics Opinion 866

Topic:      Disclosure of confidential information to prevent reasonably certain death or substantial bodily harm or to prevent a crime; confidential information acquired after termination of representation

Ethics Opinion 865

Topic:   Estate planner serving as attorney for executor; conflict of interest; legal malpractice

Ethics Opinion 864

Topic: Fee sharing and co-counsel arrangements with a lawyer not licensed in New York; disclosure in retainer and closing statements

Ethics Opinion 863

Topic: Out-of-state lawyer’s practice of immigration law in New York State; disclosing jurisdictional and practice area limitations on letterhead and business cards.

Ethics Opinion 860

Topic: Compensation of nonlawyer “Business Developer” by law firm with grant writing business.

Ethics Opinion 859

Topic:            Part-time government attorneys: conflicts of interest, imputed con­flicts, non-consentable conflicts.

Ethics Opinion 858

Topic:             Conditioning in-house attorney’s employment on execution of a confidentiality agreement.