NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION Professional Ethics Committee Opinion Opinion #81 – 06/06/1968 (16-68) advertisements Modified by 106 Modified by 403 Topic: Directory Listings Digest: Telephone and city directory listings Canon: Former Canon 27 QUESTION The Committee has received a request for amplification of “Professional Ethic-et #3” on Listings in Directories as published in the … Continued
NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION Professional Ethics Committee Opinion Opinion #80 – 06/06/1968 (25-67a) existing clients, duty of lawyer, employment, intermediary, labor, lawyer referral service, legal services, solicitation Modified by 416 Topic: Group legal service programs Digest: Validity of group legal service program to handle grievance claims of dissident union members Canons: Former Canons 27, … Continued
NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION Professional Ethics Committee Opinion Opinion #79 – 06/06/1968 (12-68) appearance, conflict of interests, disqualification, judges Topic: Judges – relationship with relative and former partners. Digest: Judicial ethics – judges avoidance of impropriety in relationship with relatives and former partner.Canon: Judicial Ethics 4, 13, 26, 29A judge asks three questions, QUESTION … Continued
NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION Professional Ethics Committee Opinion Opinion #78 – 06/06/1968 (8-68) existing clients, conflict of interests, corporation, duty of lawyer, employment, intermediary, labor, law practice, legal services, solicitation Topic: Solicitation; lay intermediaries; corporation furnishing legal service to corporation employees Digest: Improper for an attorney to accept retainer from corporate client to represent … Continued
NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION Professional Ethics Committee Opinion Opinion #77 – 06/06/1968 (6-68) advertisements, newspapers and news media, solicitation Topic: Advertising. Notice of change of office location Digest: Erection of public sign at site of proposed new office building Canon: Former Canon 27 QUESTION An attorney who is required to move from his present … Continued
NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION Professional Ethics Committee Opinion Opinion #76 – 06/06/1968 (25-67) existing clients, corporation, duty of lawyer, employment, intermediary, labor, law practice, legal services, representation Modified by 416Topic: Group Legal Services Programs Digest: Validity of group legal service programs under recent United States Supreme Court decisions Canon: Former Canon 27, 35, 47 … Continued
NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION Professional Ethics Committee Opinion Opinion # 82 – 05/21/1968 (3-68) appearance, conflict of interests, criminal practice, employee, partnership, part-time public, prosecutors, public Topic: Conflict of Interests; Municipal attorneys Digest: Partners or associates defending criminal matters in county where one associate is part-time assistant district attorney Canons: Former Canons 6, 37 … Continued
NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION Professional Ethics Committee Opinion Opinion #75 – 04/03/1968 (1-68) employment, indigents, legal services, recommendation for employment, solicitation Topic: Solicitation Digest: May legal aid societies send letters informing indigent clients that there is pending and eviction proceeding against them Canon: Former Canon 27 QUESTION The Legal Aid Society of Albany, Inc., … Continued
NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION Professional Ethics Committee Opinion Opinion #74 – 03/28/1968 (32-67) adverse interests, children, clients, confidences, conflict of interests, consent, employment, representation Topic: Conflict of interest Digest: Representation of injured child in action against injured parents, Attorney retained by parents Canon: Former Canon 6 QUESTION While husband and wife were riding with … Continued
NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION Professional Ethics Committee Opinion Opinion #73 – 03/01/1968 (36-67) advertisements Topic: Conflict of interests, disclosure Digest: Attorney Employed by carrier has superior duty to assured, his client Canon: Former Canons 6, 15 QUESTION A lawyer has been retained by an insurance company to defend its insured under the terms of … Continued