Profile

Devika Kewalramani is a partner and co-chair of Moses & Singer's Legal Ethics & Law Firm Practice.

Overview

Devika Kewalramani is a partner and co-chair of Moses & Singer's Legal Ethics & Law Firm Practice which advises law firms, lawyers and legal departments on ethical, legal and business aspects of law practice. She focuses her practice on a variety of legal ethics, professional responsibility and risk management matters, including, conflicts of interest, disqualification, and screening procedures; letter of engagement rules; lateral attorney arrangements; client confidentiality; duties of supervisory and subordinate lawyers; professional liability and loss prevention; attorney advertising and solicitation rules; and ethical issues involving metadata, email and inadvertent disclosure.

Ms. Kewalramani is a member of the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers and of the Professional Responsibility Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and past chair of its subcommittee on engagement letters. She is a frequent speaker on legal ethics at the Practising Law Institute, the New York State Bar Association, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and the National Business Institute.

Previously, Ms. Kewalramani was general counsel to Moses & Singer.  Prior to that she was an associate in Moses & Singer's Banking and Finance practice where she focused on secured and unsecured financings representing major financial institutions.

Ms. Kewalramani grew up in Kolkata, India and is fluent in Hindi and Bengali.

Professional Memberships

• Member, Advisory Board of the Ethics Institute of the New York County Lawyers' Association , -
• Member, Committee on Professional Discipline, The Association of the Bar of the City of New York , -
• Past Chair, Subcommittee on Engagement Letters, Professional Responsibility Committee, The Association of the Bar of the City of New York , -
• Member, Committee on Professional Ethics of the New York State Bar Association, -

Publications & Presentations

• "Gucci v. Guess: A Lesson On Lapsed Licenses" , Law 360, 06/2010
• "EEOC v. Kelley Drye & Warren LLP: The Sequel" , Moses & Singer Client Alert, 04/2010
• "Lawyer’s Failure to Maintain License Triggers Battle Over Attorney-Client Privilege" , Moses & Singer Client Alert, 04/2010
• Ethics of Going Green At Home And Abroad, The Institute of International Social Development and Forum 21, 04/2010
• The New NY Ethics Rules: An Inside View for In-House Counsel, legal department of Deutsche Bank AG, April 2010, and legal department of JPMorgan Chase & Co., and Moses & Singer’s In-House Counsel CLE Program , 05/2010
• Getting Engaged and Serving Your Client Under New York’s Engagement Letter Rules, The Judicial Title Insurance Agency LLC, 03/2010
• "Report on Bill A8697 to Amend New York’s Lien Law of the Ethics Institute of the New York County Lawyers’ Association", New York County Lawyers’ Association, 06/2010
• "You Can Tweet But You Can’t Hide: Social Networking for Lawyers" , New York Law Journal, 06/2010
• "No License, No Privilege: Says Magistrate Judge in Gucci v. Guess" , Moses & Singer Client Alert, 07/2010
• Indian Businesses Go Green- host, Citi-Anchin Indian Initiative, 06/2010
• Minimize Risks, Manage Challenges and Avert Ethical Pitfalls , Esquire Bank and Ultimate Abstract of New York, 07/2010
• "Up Close and Professional With New York’s Engagement Letter Rules" , New York State Bar Association Journal, 09/2010
• Navigating the Attorney Advertising Maze: Recent Rules, Cases and Ethics Opinions , New York County Lawyers’ Association, 09/2010
• "Unwritten Vows Break Up Law Firm Partnership" , Moses & Singer Client Alert, 09/2010
• "Lawyers Spared From Red Flags Rule" , Moses & Singer Client Alert, 12/2010
• “The New York Rules of Professional Conduct”, Oxford University Press, 09/2010
• "URLs for ESQs: How to Choose and Use Ethical Domain Names" , New York Law Journal, 01/2011
• "Privilege Invoked If Company Reasonably Believes In-house Counsel is a Lawyer" , Moses & Singer Client Alert, 02/2011
• Ethical Issues in Client Representation Agreements , WebCredenza National Teleseminar, 02/2011
• Women's Leadership That Inspires Global Change, The 55th Annual United Nations Conference on Women's Empowerment, 03/2011
• "Cloud Computing: Ethical Shades of Gray" , New York Law Journal, 03/2011
• "Flying High in April" , cited, Law Technology News (LTN), 03/2011
• "Conference on Women’s Empowerment Held at the UN" , featured, News India Times, 04/2011
• "Women’s Empowerment Conference Held at UN" , featured, The India Tribune, 04/2011
• Ethics for New Lawyers , Lawline.com CLE Seminar, 04/2011
• "New York Resolves In-House Counsel Bar Admission Problem", Moses & Singer Client Alert, 04/2011
• "Are Law Firm Loss Prevention Communications Discoverable?" , Moses & Singer Client Alert, 05/2011
• From Outsourced to Cloudsourced: The Next Level of Risks , Moses & Singer’s In-House Counsel CLE Program, 06/2011
• Cloud Computing: Thunderstorms or Silver Lining?, Co-Sponsored by New York County Lawyers’ Association and its Cyberspace Committee, 06/2011
• 2nd Annual USA India Business Summit, participant, 06/2011
• Ethics Technology and Solos, Business Lawyers Group, 07/2011
• Latest Trends and Insights Impacting Law Practice in a Turnaround Economy , Chair, the Association of the Bar of The City of New York, 07/2011
• Attorney Advertising via Blogs, Websites and Social Networks: Ethical Risks, Strafford National CLE Webinar, 11/2010
• Cloud Computing: Balancing Privacy and Data Mobility , Moses & Singer CLE Webinar to FriendFinder Networks Inc., 08/2011
• "Ethical Screens: Building Electronic Barriers" , Law360, 08/2011
• "How to Outsource Legal Work—Ethically: Authorities Weigh In" , New York Law Journal, 08/2011
• “No Office, No Practice? No! Requirement of New York Office for Non-resident Attorneys Ruled Unconstitutional", Moses & Singer Client Alert, 09/2011
• In-House Counsel Ethics: Risks, Trends and Real-World Challenges, Moses & Singer CLE Program to Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc., 09/2011
• "Lawyers: Know Your Clients: Unsolicited Emails – Fake Checks – Vanishing C lients," , Moses & Singer Client Alert, 10/2011
• "The Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics", Mentor to Journal staff members for note publications on ethics, 01/2010
• Ethical Considerations for the Real Estate Leasing Attorney, Analysis of Case Study by Devika Kewalramani, Practising Law Institute, 11/2011
• Ethics for Real Estate Attorneys, Analysis of Case Study by Devika Kewalramani, Practising Law Institute 10th, 11th and 12th Annual Commercial Real Estate Institute (New York), 11/2011
• Hot Topics in Legal Ethics: Current Issues, New Risks and Recent Developments, Esquire Bank, Ultimate Abstract of New York and Citrin Cooperman, 12/2011
• "The Greenwashing Domino Effect" , Thomson Reuters News & Insight, 02/2012
• "Lawyers' Titles and Law Firm Names in the Hi-Tech Era", New York Law Journal, 02/2012
• Dealing with Ethical Issues Facing Intellectual Property Practitioners , New York County Lawyers' Association, 02/2012
• "Second Circuit Topples Some NY Rules on Certified Specialists" , Moses & Singer Client Alert, 03/2012
• "Greenwashing": Deceptive Business Claims of "Eco-Friendliness" , Forbes.com, 03/2012
• Ethics for Inhouse Lawyers: Emerging Issues, Evolving Duties, Barclays Capital, 04/2012
• "Save E-Mails, Avoid Sanctions: Court Creates New Duty To Preserve E-Mails During A Transaction" , Moses & Singer Client Alert, 04/2012
• "Ethics in Elder Law" , Practising Law Institute’s (PLI) 24th Annual Elder Law Institute, 04/2012

Colleges Attended

• The City University of New York, School of Law at Queens College, J.D., 1995
• St. Xavier's College (Kolkata, India), B.A. , 1988

Languages Spoken

• English
• Bengali
• Hindi