Legal Ethics in a New York Minute

Welcome to the fifth episode of Legal Ethics in a New York Minute with host Kaylin Whittingham. Your Legal Ethics briefing where you’ll hear tips to stay on track and traps to avoid. In this episode, Kaylin discusses conflict of interest breaking it down into two broad categories; client conflict and personal conflict. Kaylin also gives some useful tips as to how you can minimize your risk of conflict and ways to protect yourself, if a conflict of interest does arise. Kaylin also goes into de...

Welcome to the sixth episode of Legal Ethics in a New York Minute with host Kaylin Whittingham. Your Legal Ethics briefing where you’ll hear tips to stay on track and traps to avoid. In this episode, Kaylin covers the topic of communication, including communicating with your clients, the courts, your adversaries, co-counsels as well as internal communication with your staff. Kaylin breaks down three things you must do when it comes to communicating and how following these rules will help you ...

Welcome to the seventh episode of Legal Ethics in a New York Minute with host Kaylin Whittingham. Your Legal Ethics briefing where you’ll hear tips to stay on track and traps to avoid. In this episode, Kaylin takes a look at the importance of supervision and how you can be held accountable for not just your own actions as an attorney; but also the actions of your associates and non-attorney employees, from managers to bookkeepers. Kaylin goes into two great case examples in this episode...

Welcome to the eight episode of Legal Ethics in a New York Minute with host Kaylin Whittingham. Your Legal Ethics briefing where you’ll hear tips to stay on track and traps to avoid. In this episode, Kaylin explains why what happens in Vegas, does NOT stay in Vegas when it comes to Reciprocal Discipline. Kaylin goes into the importance of self reporting when you have been disciplined in another jurisdiction and the potential consequences of failing to self report. Also included, some case exa...

Welcome to the fourth episode of Legal Ethics in a New York minute with host Kaylin Whittingham. Your Legal Ethics briefing where you’ll hear tips to stay on track and traps to avoid. In this episode, Kaylin dispels some common misconceptions about escrow accounts, clearing up what is and isn't misuse of an escrow account. Kaylin delves into some practices that you may be surprised to learn could lead to you being disciplined. In this episode Kaylin also tells us why you should not hide third...

Welcome to the third episode of Legal Ethics in a New York minute with host Kaylin Whittingham. Your Legal Ethics briefing where you’ll hear tips to stay on track and traps to avoid. In this episode, Kaylin gives us her Top 5 DOs and Top 5 DON'Ts when it comes to escrow accounts. Kaylin explains why you should always keep your escrow accounts separate from your personal accounts as well as why it's vital to promptly deliver client and third party funds. Kaylin also covers something you should...

Welcome to the second episode of Legal Ethics in a New York Minute with host Kaylin Whittingham. Your Legal Ethics briefing where you’ll hear tips to stay on track and traps to avoid. In this episode, Kaylin gives us a rundown of her top ten reasons why attorneys get in trouble and what to do when the Attorney Grievance Committee comes knocking. Kaylin goes into detail on the best ways to handle a complaint with three great tips including why you should never berate a client when they file a ...

Welcome to the first episode of Legal Ethics in a New York minute with host Kaylin Whittingham. Your Legal Ethics briefing where you’ll hear tips to stay on track and traps to avoid. In this episode, Kaylin tells us a bit about her career in legal ethics and gives us an overview of what to expect in Season 1 of the podcast–The Fundamentals. She then breaks down the attorney disciplinary system in New York covering its structure, purpose, what conduct can be investigated, the standard of...