New York Law Puts Atty Referrals In Privilege Safe Zone (Law360)
Law360, August 27, 2018
New York Law Puts Atty Referrals In Privilege Safe Zone [subscription required]
“New York’s governor on Friday signed a bill giving the full protection of the attorneyclient privilege to communications between a wouldbe client and a lawyer referral service. The legislation signed by Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo says any communication between a member or agent of a lawyer association or society and a person seeking a professional referral is ‘privileged on the same basis as the privilege provided by law for communications between attorney and client.’ The state bar’s Committee on Lawyer Referral Service and the New York City Bar Association both consulted on the bill. ‘The city bar was pleased to collaborate with the state bar and other New York bar associations to help bring this proposal to fruition and to facilitate passage of an ABA resolution in the hopes that other states will follow suit,’ said David Keyko of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, who chairs the city bar legal referral service committee.”
