Lawyers can ghostwrite for clients
A lawyer may ethically play a limited role in representing a client and ghostwrite documents for court proceedings, according to a recent ethics opinion.
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New York State Supreme Court, Suffolk County has ordered a plaintiff to grant a defendant access to her Facebook and MySpace accounts, including deleted and historical pages, on the grounds that photos...
View ArticleABA ethics opinion: Fee must be ‘reasonable’
A lawyer must be prepared to show that modifications to the terms of an existing fee agreement were reasonable at the time changes were made, according to an American Bar Association ethics opinion....
View ArticleState bar creates free ethics opinions app
The New York State Bar Association has brought legal ethics research into the 21st century, announcing the release of its Mobile Ethics App that allows judges, lawyers and law students to access...
View ArticleJudges must be ‘judicious’ on social network sites
Judges using social networking sites on the Internet need to be “judicious” about what they post and who they friend, according to a new ethics opinion released by the American Bar Association. Formal...
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