Committee on Professional Ethics Topic: Virtual law office; office address; advertising, business cards and letterhead Digest of the Committee: “Advertising for legal services may not identify a mail drop as the sole address, and must include the street address of the lawyer’s principal office; a lawyer’s business cards and letterhead may use a mail drop as […]
Topics: Identification of Non-lawyers on Law Firm Websites Syllabus of the Board: “A law firm’s letterhead and website may list the names of nonlawyer employees if the employees are clearly identified as nonlawyers through the use of job titles or other identifiers that differentiate the lawyers from the nonlawyers. Similarly, a law firm’s business cards […]
The New York City Bar Committee on Professional Ethics prepared a series of common questions regarding New York’s lawyer advertising and solicitation rules that were adopted within the past few years and included in the Rules of Professional Conduct that became effective in April 2009. The full text is available at http://www.nycbar.org…
Committee on Professional Ethics (Overrules in part Opinion No. 22, 128, 200, and 206) Topic: Dual practice; Certified Public Accountant; Letterheads; Professional Cards Digest of the Committee: “Letterhead and professional cards may state lawyer is licensed as a certified public accountant” Code (opinion issued prior to adoption of current rules): DR 2-101 (A) through (D), […]
Committee on Professional Ethics Topic: Listing of Lawyer Admitted only in Foreign Jurisdiction on Letterhead of New York firm Digest of The Committee: “A lawyer admitted only in a foreign country may be listed as an associate on the letter-head of a New York law firm if there is an appropriate indication that he is […]
Committee on Professional Ethics Topic: Letterhead Digest of the Committee: “Improper to list an attorney as ‘inactive’ on firm’s letterhead after he has commenced practice in another jurisdiction” Code (opinion issued prior to adoption of current rules): EC 2-11; DR 2-102(A)(4); 2-102(B), (C) The full text is available at http://www.nysba.org…