New York Governor David A. Patterson has recently signed a law that modified the statutory language regarding attorneys who represent children in the Family Court of the State of New York . We wrote about an attorney's obligations to a child clint HERE. Attorneys representing children in New York Family Courts have the title "attorney for the … [Read more...]
How NY’s New Ethics Rules Affect Lawyers With Children as Clients
Andrew Schepard and Theo Liebmann, in the March 11th edition of the New York Law Journal, listed three important changes in New York's new Rules of Professional Conduct as they apply to lawyers representing children in Family Court. (I explored how the new rules would affect conflicts of interest here.) Schepard and Liebmann's main focus was on … [Read more...]