The New York State Bar Association’s Committee on Professional Ethics has issued an opinion saying the state’s Rules of Professional Conduct prohibit client referrals for a fee paid to companies such as Avvo Legal Services. The Committee also issued a ...

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Judges using social networking sites on the Internet need to be “judicious” about what they post and who they friend, according to a new ethics opinion released by the American Bar Association. Formal Opinion 462, issued by the ABA Standing ...

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The New York State Bar Association has brought legal ethics research into the 21st century, announcing the release of its Mobile Ethics App that allows judges, lawyers and law students to access instant ethics advice from their smart phones. The ...

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A lawyer must be prepared to show that modifications to the terms of an existing fee agreement were reasonable at the time changes were made, according to an American Bar Association ethics opinion. Modifications to existing fee agreements are usually suspect ...

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New York State Supreme Court, Suffolk County has ordered a plaintiff to grant a defendant access to her Facebook and MySpace accounts, including deleted and historical pages, on the grounds that photos on those pages were inconsistent ...

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A lawyer may ethically play a limited role in representing a client and ghostwrite documents for court proceedings, according to a recent ethics opinion.

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