ALBANY – After digesting more than 100 comments and complaints from lawyers, constitutional concerns raised by the Federal Trade Commission and the hovering threat of a First Amendment lawsuit, the presiding justices of the Appellate Division’s four departments have tweaked a sweeping series of new advertising restrictions to retain the overall goal of stopping the most egregious solicitations while permitting attorneys to advertise responsibly.
The presiding justices yesterday posted a final version of the new rules – which are now slated to take effect on Feb. 1 – on the Web site of the Office of Court Administration at http://www.courts.state.ny.us/rules/attorney_ads_amendments.shtml.
