Month: October 2000

Opinion 733

NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION Employee Committee on Professional Ethics Opinion #733 (10/05/2000) Topic:     Sharing legal fees with non-lawyer employees Digest:    Non-lawyers may be compensated based on a profit sharing arrangement but may not be paid a percentage of profits or fees attributable to particular client matters referred by the employee. Code:     DR 2?103(B); DR … Continued