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Can you buy groceries for a client? NYC bar urges ethics rule reform

By Karen Rubin on May 1, 2020

Lawyers should be allowed to help provide “basic financial assistance to indigent clients — such as money for groceries, clothes or medical supplies,” the New York City Bar Association said last week in a letter to the state’s courts.  In light of the urgent need caused by the corona virus pandemic, the group is seeking…

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