Bill Text: NY A01851 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides that the attorney - client privilege shall apply to communications between a lawyer referral service and a client.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 21-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-01-09 - enacting clause stricken [A01851 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A01851-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1851 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 13, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. WEINSTEIN, LAVINE, SEAWRIGHT, SIMON, ZEBROWSKI, COOK, CYMBROWITZ, GALEF, GLICK, GOTTFRIED, JAFFEE, O'DONNELL, ORTIZ, PAULIN, ROSENTHAL, SEPULVEDA, SKOUFIS, JOYNER, ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Judiciary AN ACT to amend the judiciary law, in relation to establishing a lawyer referral service - client privilege The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 498 of the judiciary law is renum- 2 bered subdivision 3 and a new subdivision 2 is added to read as follows: 3 2. The communications between a member or authorized agent of an asso- 4 ciation or society of attorneys or counselors at law and any person, 5 persons or entity communicating with such member or authorized agent for 6 the purpose of seeking or obtaining a professional referral shall be 7 deemed to be privileged on the same basis as the privilege provided by 8 law for communications between attorney and client. Such privilege may 9 be waived only by the person, persons or entity who has furnished infor- 10 mation to the association or society, its members or authorized agents. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03796-01-7