By Shari L. Klevens and Alanna Clair | February 12, 2021
Because of the visibility of such online profiles, many attorneys want to put their best foot forward and include information that highlights their expertise and successes. However, there can be risks when choosing what information to make available to the public online.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Anthony E. Davis | January 22, 2021
A recent ethics opinion from the ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility, Formal Opinion 496, examines the options available to lawyers when confronted with what it describes as the "regular" occurrence of the phenomenon that "[c]lients, opposing parties, and others are increasingly taking to the Internet to express their opinions of lawyers they have encountered." In this edition of his Professional Responsibility column, Anthony E. Davis discusses the principal conclusions in the Opinion, and the lessons it, and NYSBA Formal Opinion 1032 on the same topic, holds for New York lawyers.
By Greg Land | January 19, 2021
The Court of Appeals said a judge should have called a hearing and allowed attorney Mark Spix to retain counsel before slapping him with a $300 contempt order over "unprofessional" emails to opposing counsel.
By Charles Toutant | December 10, 2020
While lawyers have some latitude in discussing clients' cases publicly in the context of a malpractice suit or disciplinary complaint against the lawyer, the same freedom does not apply to an "informal controversy" over the posting of a negative online review, said a New Jersey ethics committee.
By Angela Morris | November 2, 2020
The law firm Fears Nachawati did not know that one of its attorneys, now a Dallas solo practitioner, was secretly signing up the clients to her personal law firm, the State Bar of Texas revealed in its latest lawyer discipline list.
By Aron Solomon | October 26, 2020
Far too often, discussions of ethics in legal marketing are, well, legal. They focus exclusively on what a lawyer is legally allowed to get away with…
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Robert A. Schwinger | September 28, 2020
In his column on Blockchain Law, Robert A. Schwinger explains how some states have begun to consider whether legal ethics rules impose any restrictions or limitations on attorneys' ability to to take payment in the form of cryptocurrency, or to hold such assets in escrow or trust.
By Hannah Roberts | September 18, 2020
The UK regulator issued the sanction in the latest example of a crackdown on lawyer conduct.
New Jersey Law Journal | Commentary
By Marc Garfinkle | September 2, 2020
Essentially, New Jersey allows the practice of competitive keyword advertising, provided that the advertisement does not redirect the searcher to the advertiser's site. Nevertheless, the practice is unethical in the greater sense of the word "ethics."
By Dan Packel | August 28, 2020
The state is the first jurisdiction to scrap Rule 5.4, which has historically barred nonlawyers from both fee sharing and from having an economic interest in a law firm.
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