Anthony E. Davis

July 07, 2004 | New York Law Journal

Anthony E. Davis, a partner of Hinshaw & Culbertson and the immediate past president of the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers, recounts some positive developments on rules that recognize that, in the modern world, lawyers necessarily and daily represent clients beyond the boundaries of the state in which they principally practice.

By Anthony E. Davis

12 minute read

July 02, 2007 | New York Law Journal

Anthony E. Davis, a partner of Hinshaw & Culbertson, writes that the NYCLA recently tried to provide guidance to New York lawyers on when deceptive tactics may be employed, either by lawyers themselves or by others acting under a lawyer's direction. However, these efforts serve merely to highlight the fact that ethics opinions cannot operate as vehicles for legislating changes to the Code of Professional Responsibility, and it is by no means clear that the proposed changes are even desirable.

By Anthony E. Davis

13 minute read

March 05, 2007 | New York Law Journal

Anthony E. Davis, a partner of Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP, examines the New York State Bar Ethics Committee's outright and emphatic rejection of lawyers' right to look at metadata in documents received from other lawyers and two opposing holdings from the ABA and the Maryland bar. Hopefully, the New York bar will reconsider and recognize that if lawyers are careless enough to send a document containing metadata, then they have only themselves to blame if the recipients read it.

By Anthony E. Davis

9 minute read

May 05, 2008 | New York Law Journal

Anthony E. Davis, a partner of Hinshaw & Culbertson, considers several recent decisions from around the country that focus on lawyers' duties to supervise their clients in the context of discovery and their duties generally towards the courts before which they practice.

By Anthony E. Davis

13 minute read

May 02, 2003 | New York Law Journal

By Anthony E. Davis

9 minute read

September 07, 2010 | New York Law Journal

In their Professional Responsibility column, Anthony E. Davis and Michael Downey of Hinshaw & Culbertson present eight steps to determine the appropriateness for a lawyer or law firm to file suit to collect unpaid fees.

By Anthony E. Davis and Michael Downey

11 minute read

June 28, 2002 | New York Law Journal

O ne of the most obvious implications for all lawyers of the Enron debacle, even before any of the questions of liability of the lawyers involved has been resolved, has been the need to focus on the management of the issuance of all kinds of opinion and audit letters. This article will highlight some of the more important considerations that should go into the issuance of legal opinions.

By Anthony E. Davis

13 minute read

January 05, 2005 | New York Law Journal

Anthony E. Davis, a partner of Hinshaw & Culbertson, writes that the settlement of the Brobeck case by Clifford Chance reinforces the significance of the need for caution from all parties in lateral hires.

By Anthony E. Davis

11 minute read

May 05, 2008 | New York Law Journal

By Anthony E. Davis

13 minute read

May 02, 2011 | New York Law Journal

In his Professional Responsibility column, Hinshaw & Culbertson partner Anthony E. Davis discusses a paper developed for the ABA's Ethics 20/20 Commission titled "Proposals of Law Firm General Counsel for Future Regulation of Relationships Between Law Firms and Sophisticated Clients," and how it will open debate as to whether the current regulatory system remains viable in the digital world and the global marketplace for legal services.

By Anthony E. Davis

13 minute read