NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION Accounting, fees, lawyer-accountant relationship, non-lawyer, referral Committee on Professional Ethics Opinion # 727 – 02/04/2000 Topic:        Referral of personal injury matters by accounting firm in return for sharing of fees. Digest:       Attorney may not accept referral from accounting firm in return for agreement to share contingent fees with accounting firm … Continued

NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION Insurance, law firm, partnership Committee on Professional Ethics  Opinion # 726 (02/02/2000) Topic:    Staff counsel; law firm. Digest: A group of lawyers who are salaried employees of an insurance company and whose practice is exclusively in defense of the company’s policy holders may hold themselves out as a law firm … Continued