[2] The ABA formally endorsed the delivery of legal ghostwriting services by attorneys to pro se clients in 2007.
The New York County Law Association agreed with the ABA approach to legal ghostwriting in a 2010 ethics opinion paper.
In that decision, NYCLA found that “…it is now ethically permissible for an attorney, with the informed consent of his or her client, to play a limited role and prepare pleadings and other submissions for a pro se litigant without disclosing the lawyer’s participation to the tribunal and adverse counsel.
[8] For this reason, the New York State Bar Association requires attorneys to disclose their assistance in papers submitted to the court.
For the same reason, we reject the contention that a lawyer who does not appear in the action circumvents court rules requiring the assumption of responsibility for their pleadings.