Category: Ethics Opinions

Ethics Opinion 846

Topic:         Contacts by non-lawyer insurance company representatives with workers’ compensation claimants represented by counsel

Ethics Opinion 845

Topic:      Lawyer/real estate broker sharing her brokerage commission with lawyers who refer buyers or sellers.

Ethics Opinion 844

Topic:              Lawyer/legislator serving as appointed counsel for indigent respondents in Family Court proceedings.

Ethics Opinion 842

Topic:  Using an outside online storage provider to store client confidential information.

Ethics Opinion 843

Topic:             Lawyer’s access to public pages of another party’s social networking site for the purpose of gathering information for client in pending litigation.

Ethics Opinion 841

Topic:              Lawyer sending e-mails to other lawyers seeking referrals of people injured by a particular pharmaceutical product.

Ethics Opinion 838

TOPIC:             Whether a rule-making or rate-making proceeding before an administrative agency or one of its officials should be considered as being before a “tribunal” for purposes of the Rules; and whether ex parte communications in such a proceeding are prohibited.