Committee on Professional Ethics

The New York City Bar Association's Committee on Professional Ethics fulfills three main duties. It runs the Bar Association's long standing ethics hotline, answering questions for practitioners about their own prospective conduct under the applicable New York Rules of Professional Conduct. It issues informal written opinions to individual practitioners who write in with ethics questions that lend themselves to lengthier answers. The Committee also issues a number of formal opinions to guide practitioners, as a public service to the profession.

Recent Reports

Duties to Prospective Clients After Beauty Contests and Other Preliminary Meetings (Formal Ethics Opinion 2013-1) ( PDF )

Jury Research and Social Media( PDF )

Obligations Upon Receiving a Document Not Intended for the Recipient (Formal Ethics Opinion 2012-1)( PDF )

For the full list of committee reports click here