Aggregate Settlements Need Client Consent, N.Y. City Bar Says (Bloomberg Law)
Bloomberg Law, October 27, 2020
Aggregate Settlements Need Client Consent, N.Y. City Bar Says
A state ethics rule does not “merely restrict the ‘making’ of an aggregate or interdependent settlement, but also ‘participation’ in the making of such settlement,” which includes negotiation, the New York City Bar Association‘s ethics committee said in an opinion.