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
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
NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION Committee on Professional Ethics Opinion #506 – 02/26/1979 (77-78) appearance, conflict of interests, part-time public, prosecutors, public Topic: Disqualification of counsel; appearance of impropriety; assistant county attorney; client in private practice Digest: Assistant county attorney may not privately represent wife in seeking to enforce separation agreement where he had represented … Continued
NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION Committee on Professional Ethics Opinion #505 02/09/1979 (63-78) advertisements, mailing, newspapers Topic: Advertising and publicity; announcement cards; opening of office Digest: Lawyer may encourage local newspaper to publish article about the opening of his office provided nothing of value is given to promote its publication; announcement cards may be sent … Continued
NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION Committee on Professional Ethics Opinion #504 02/06/1979 (68-78) part-time public, prosecutors Topic: County attorney; conflict of interest Digest: Improper for county attorney to represent real property owner in assessment review proceeding. Code: Canon 9; EC 5-15, 8-8; DR 5-105 QUESTION May a county attorney represent private property owners in administrative … Continued
NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION Committee on Professional Ethics Opinion #503 – 02/01/1979 (67-78) confidences, employee, paralegals Topic: Confidences and secrets of client; paralegal Digest: Lawyer is bound not to reveal confidences and secrets acquired while employed as a paralegal prior to his admission to the Bar Code: Canons 4, 7 and 9; EC 1-5, … Continued
NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION Committee on Professional Ethics Opinion #502 – 01/15/1979 (58-78) conflict of interests, disqualification, litigation, part-time public, prosecutors, representing Modifies #313 Topic: Disqualification of counsel; appearance of impropriety; former assistant district attorney Digest: Former assistant district attorney may represent persons who were indicted during his employment by district attorney’s office where … Continued
NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION Committee on Professional Ethics Opinion #501- 01/05/1979 (62-78) conflict of interests, part-time public, town/village, zoning board Topic: Conflict of interests; assistant town attorney; zoning board of appeals. Digest: Assistant town attorney may not accept assignment to act as counsel to zoning board of appeals in connection with Article 78 proceeding … Continued
NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION Committee on Professional Ethics Opinion #500 – 12/06/1978 (52-78) advertisements, dual practice, employee, law office, letterhead, paralegals, patent practice, trademark practice Overrules in part #261 Topic: Letterhead; advertising; registered patent agents; paralegals Digest: Firm letterhead may list non-lawyer employees such as registered patent agents and paralegals to the extent that … Continued
NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION Committee on Professional Ethics Opinion #499 – 12/04/1978 (55-78) advertisements, advice, class action, communication, illegal conduct, newspaper, solicitation, unlawful of Topic: Solicitation; class action; communication with potential members of class in suit Digest: Lawyer may communicate with potential members of class in suit for purpose of obtaining information beneficial to … Continued