NY Ethics Rule Change Is Good News For Public Interest Attys (Law360)

Law360, July 19, 2020

NY Ethics Rule Change Is Good News For Public Interest Attys

Later, the rules evolved to address cases in which personal injury lawyers would advance funds to support their clients through the course of litigation. An early opinion of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York (today the New York City Bar Association) addressed a case in which a lawyer supported a client who had lost his hand during an accident on a ship and was therefore unable to work. The bar ethics committee ruled that the lawyer’s support of his client gave him too much control over his client and the litigation.

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