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NY City Bar Urges Humanitarian Exception to Ethics Rules to Allow Attorney Contributions to Poor Clients (New York Law Journal)
New York Law Journal, April 27, 2020
NY City Bar Urges Humanitarian Exception to Ethics Rules to Allow Attorney Contributions to Poor Clients
The New York City Bar Association has urged a panel of the state’s top judges to adopt a proposed rule change that would allow attorneys to provide financial assistance to poor clients and those they are working for on a pro bono basis. The City Bar said in an April 24 letter to the Administrative Board of the Courts that the COVID-19 pandemic had created an “urgent need” to amend state ethics rules, which forbid lawyers from contributing money to litigation clients.
