Sentences with phrase «association opinions stating»

More recently, the topic has been put to rest, most notably in the US, where there have been numerous State Bar Association opinions stating that (subject to certain conditions) LPO is not the unauthorized practice of law.

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On Oct. 10, they sent their urgent email to members stating that while SNA «welcomes the diversity of opinions in our Association,» members should not sign - on to the open letter.

The views, opinions and positions expressed within this post belong to the Rookie Moms site and do not necessarily represent those of The American Heart Association unless explicitly stated.

According to public officers law and an opinion provided by the state Association of Towns» attorney, a tie vote is considered a «failure to elect, «and the incumbent continues in the office until the next election.

But he said he's going to seek an advisory opinion from the state Bar Association concerning the board's rebuke of his vehicle and traffic ticket representation.

5) Pulse Opinion Research which conducts the field work and provides the methodology for all Rasmussen Reports surveys did a number of state tracking surveys during the presidential election season for the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers and the Entertainment Software Association.

Albany, NY — On this week's show, Alan talks with the executive director of New York's School Boards Association, Tim Kremer, about the status of the state's public schools, the long - running Campaign for Fiscal Equity court case, and their opinions on Education Commisioner Richard Mills and NYC Schools Chancellor Joel Klein.

The San Francisco Chronicle said that Catherine Reheis - Boyd, president of oil trade group Western States Petroleum Association, in a letter to the city of Berkeley had called the labels «forced reproductions of the State's and City's policy opinions.»

Increasingly, however, advocates of greater state provision and direction of education became more vocal in their opinion that «popular education could not be left to chance to voluntary associations.»

«On behalf of the Arizona Charter Schools Association, including our state's 600 - plus charter schools serving approximately 160,000 students, we are pleased that today's opinion by Attorney General Brnovich brings much - needed clarity when it comes to budget cuts to be endured in the next year by small, public charter schools.

Randall G. Bennett is the Deputy Executive Director and General Counsel of the Tennessee School Boards Association where he provides general legal opinions to local boards of education, superintendents and TSBA staff on school governanace issues, organizes and presents at seminars and training events, prepares and files amicus briefs in appellate cases affecting public schools, monitors current litigation and changes in state and federal law, and supervises the Association's Policy Department, A former school board member and police officer, Mr. Bennett obtained his law degree from Nashville School of Law.

A coalition of education groups led by the National School Boards Association and its Ohio affiliate had urged the justices to review a federal appeals court opinion that denied qualified immunity to an administrator who had reported to state authorities her suspicions that a 17 - year - old girl with an intellectual disability was being sexually abused at home.

Wendell Steinhauer, president of the 200,000 - member New Jersey Education Association penned an opinion piece highlighting the opportunity that ESSA provides and emphasizing the importance of stakeholder engagement during the state's four regional listening sessions later this fall.

Designed to be practical, they are also based on scientific data and expert opinion,» stated Dr. Brian DiGangi, DVM, MS, DABVP, Clinical Associate Professor of Shelter Medicine at the University of Florida, Chairman of the Position Statement Committee, and President of the Association of Shelter Veterinarians Executive Board.

To learn more about veterinarian, veterinary technician, veterinary assistant, and veterinary technologist experiences with and opinions about mental health and substance abuse problems, work - related stress, and intervention / prevention programs, the Tennessee Veterinary Medical Association, Auburn University, and University of Georgia are working together to survey veterinary professionals in our state.

Many state bar associations have issued ethics opinions about lawyers using or recommending litigation financing companies.

The New York State Bar Association Committee on Professional Ethics reached a similar conclusion in Opinion 820-2/08 / 08, where it answered: «May a lawyer use an e-mail service provider that scans e-mails by computer for keywords and then sends or displays instantaneously (to the side of the e-mails in question) computer - generated advertisements to users of the service based on the e-mail communications?»

During the past couple of years, bar associations in Philadelphia, Florida and New York State have rendered opinions against attorneys claiming expertise on LinkedIn in areas in which they haven't been certified.

Even though the AG suggested this approach under the ERTA doctrine and the possible use of Article 216 (1) TFEU as a bridge from «internal to external» competencies (para. 104 of the Opinion), the Court apparently wanted to distinguish between situations where the measures implementing the association agreement aim to create a relationship equal to those between EU Member States and those where this is not the case.

Third - party opinions practice is a branch of business law perhaps best explained, for those who are unfamiliar with it, by this excerpt from the 2007 Report on Lawyers» Opinions in Business Transactions [PDF], by the Maryland State Bar Associatioopinions practice is a branch of business law perhaps best explained, for those who are unfamiliar with it, by this excerpt from the 2007 Report on Lawyers» Opinions in Business Transactions [PDF], by the Maryland State Bar AssociatioOpinions in Business Transactions [PDF], by the Maryland State Bar Association, Inc.:

Some bar associations have even withdrawn outdated opinions in light of other state bar associations» concerns about the effect of such a prohibition on the accessibility of legal services to pro se litigants.

See Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Formal Opinion 2001 - 1 (concluding that information submitted by e-mail to a law firm via the firm's website was unsolicited; simply including an e-mail link on a law firm's website does not amount to an invitation to transmit confidential information); Iowa State Bar Association Op. 07 - 02 (evaluated whether the lawyer said or did anything to prompt the potential client to provide confidential information to the lawyer, noting that a lawyer's «request to contact» is not the same as a request for information); Massachusetts Bar Association Op. 07 - 01 (concluding that a website is a marketing tool by which a prospective client may identify which lawyers have the expertise necessary to handle a particular case, and that the publication of such information could reasonably lead a prospective client to conclude that, when sending information to the firm via an e-mail link, the firm and its lawyers have implicitly «agreed to consider» whether to form an attorney - client relationship.

Yesterday the United States Supreme Court delivered a 7 - 2 opinion about violent video games: Brown, Governor Of California, et al. v. Entertainment Merchants Association et al. [PDF].

The New York State Bar Association's Committee on Professional Ethics, considered these issues in an opinion issued earlier this year.

And New York State Bar Association Ethics Opinion 1132 (2017) finds Avvo Answers and similar sites to constitute unethical fee splitting, as did a 2016 advisory opinion from the South CaroliOpinion 1132 (2017) finds Avvo Answers and similar sites to constitute unethical fee splitting, as did a 2016 advisory opinion from the South Caroliopinion from the South Carolina Bar.

(New York State Bar Association's Committee on Professional Ethics Opinion 820-2/08 / 08).

While I am sympathetic to the need of these organizations to raise money for operation, in my humble opinion, the first priority of bar associations ought to be aiding the profession, including attorneys from other states.

The Model Rules serve as outer limits of regulations and restrictions on attorney advertising but leave specific restrictions to the regulation of state bar associations, whose opinions on the matter vastly differ.

Additional examples of opinions covering cloud services are Pennsylvania Bar Association, Committee on Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility, Formal Opinion 2011 - 200, «Ethical Obligations for Attorneys Using Cloud Computing / Software as a Service While Fulfilling the Duties of Confidentiality and Preservation of Client Property» (November, 2011) and North Carolina State Bar 2011 Formal Ethics Opinion 6, «Subscribing to Software as a Service While Fulfilling the Duties of Confidentiality and Preservation of Client Property» (January, 2012).

«The State of Fair use in Academia After the 11th Circuit's Opinion in the Georgia State Copyright Case,» Boston Bar Association (2014)

The Opinion issued by the Kentucky Bar Association, which states that «a criminal defense lawyer may not advise a client with regard to a plea agreement that waives the client's right to pursue a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel...» should be upheld.

So far, only three published studies have analyzed the association between brief readability and case outcome, 50 and no studies have analyzed that association in the trial courts, where most lawyers practice.51 Long and Christensen sampled 882 appellate briefs from the Supreme Court, federal appellate courts, and state supreme courts.52 Their dependent variable was the outcome of the appeal (affirmed or reversed), while their independent variable was readability measured by the Flesch Reading Ease score as calculated by Microsoft Word.53 For federal appellate and state supreme court briefs, the researchers coded control variables for federal or state court, standard of review, presence of a dissenting opinion, and readability of the opinion deciding the appeal.54 For United States Supreme Court briefs, the researchers coded control variables for constitutional issue, criminal or civil case, presence of a dissenting opinion, and opinion readability.55 They found no statistically significant correlation between readability and outcome in the briefs in their study.56

The American Bar Association in April of this year issued Ethics Opinion 466 stating that a lawyer may passively review a juror or potential juror's public presence on the Internet without violating Rule 3.5 (b) which prohibits ex parte communications with a juror.

The final chapters of the book look at the various opinions on the ethics of cloud storage from a number of state bar associations, and a review of the security and back - up measures Google has put in place.

The American Bar Association has neatly listed out the ethical opinions on cloud computing from several state bar associations on its website.

Several state bar associations provide ethical opinions on cloud computing.

In this book, it's in the context of the American Bar Association's Rules of Professional Conduct and opinions from American state bar associations.

Since 2000, Micah has presented the Pennsylvania Bar Association's annual marketing ethics program (as part of its three times per year «Ethics Potpourri» programming in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh), changing the focus each year to address ethics topics that have included an analysis of U.S. Supreme Court cases, advertising ethics opinions across the country, lawyer rankings and ratings, use of social media, blogs, traditional marketing approaches and missteps, internet marketing, solicitation, multi-jurisdictional practices, and state - by - state advertising requirements as they relate to everything from pre-approvals, language limitations, disciplinary actions, and the myriad of ways a law firm can (often unknowingly) violate the Rules of Professional Conduct.

www.illinoisbar.org For ISBA Members Only - Searchable database of ethics advisory opinions issued by the Illinois State Bar Association (1984 — present)

Illinois State Bar Association (ISBA) Ethics Advisory Opinions.

The Legal Cloud Computing Association (LCCA), a group of vendors who provide services to lawyers, and the International Legal Technology Standards Organization (ILTSO) are in the process of writing comments to the NC Bar regarding the negative impact that this opinion will have on legal technology innovation as well as the negative impact that it will have on their customers who practice law in the state.

Neither State Judicial nor the Colorado Bar Association provides case summaries for unpublished appellate opinions.

Although the opinions of each bar association are very similar to a point, in fact many of them use decisions of other states to form their own, attorneys will find some variation so should always look to the state they practice in for confirmation.

[11] The American Medical Association's Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs has issued an opinion stating, «The physician should not reveal confidential communications or information without the express consent of the patient, unless required to do so by law [and] subject to certain exceptions which are ethically and legally justified because of overriding social considerations.»

«The United States Attorneys for the Eastern and Western Districts of Kentucky (United States) have moved this Court to review the merits of Kentucky Bar Association (KBA) Ethics Opinion E-435, an ethics advisory opinion, which finds the use of ineffective - assistance - of - counsel (IAC) waivers in plea agreements violates our Rules of Professional COpinion E-435, an ethics advisory opinion, which finds the use of ineffective - assistance - of - counsel (IAC) waivers in plea agreements violates our Rules of Professional Copinion, which finds the use of ineffective - assistance - of - counsel (IAC) waivers in plea agreements violates our Rules of Professional Conduct.

Instead, this post focuses on three recent documents, ranging from formal opinions to draft issue papers, issued by three very prominent Bar associations — the American Bar Association (ABA), the New York State Bar Association (NYSBA), and the State Bar of California (CA Bar).

In the meantime, on September 10, 2010, the New York State Bar Association Committee on Professional Ethics issued Opinion 842 on lawyer use of an outside online storage (i.e., cloud) provider to store client confidential information.

A New York County bar opinion and an Oregon state bar association say Yes on both counts.

The New York State Bar Association Committee on Professional Ethics addressed a similar issue in June 2013 in Opinion 972.

In Oregon, the Oregon State Bar Association issued Opinion No. 2005 - 164 to address both public websites and using online communication.