Sentences with phrase «current ethics rules»

But what's truly troubling is that somewhat perversely, the conflicts and lack of clarity in current ethics rules wind up discouraging the very lawyers whom we'd want to innovate.

Current ethics rules don't make these collaborations easy.

Current ethics rules prohibit lawyers from trying to influence the judicial process so lawyers should not be blogging about ongoing cases for that reason.

When someone asked whether current legal ethics rules should be considered, a strong majority agreed that current ethics rules would not apply in five years.

The paper, Law Firms, Ethics, and Equity Capital: A Conversation, published yesterday by Georgetown Law School's Center for the Study of the Legal Profession, collects correspondence among MacEwen, Georgetown law professor Milton C. Regan and University of Illinois law professor Larry E. Ribstein, in which they discuss whether current ethics rules would permit firms to sell financial instruments and debate the arguments for and against.

The chief issue I have with Speaker Silver is that the current ethics rules allow him greater leeway with outside employment simply because he's a lawyer.

The USDA has said that while her appointment was legal at the time, under current ethics rules she could not have immediately joined the board.

Not exact matches

While it would appear under the current rules, the district attorney can't make the comptroller pay back the tuition he accepted, Flaherty said he's still speaking with the ethics board chairman about the case, Wednesday.

The recent release of these two reports and the ongoing corruption trials of two legislative leaders have put the spotlight on New York's dire need for state action on ethics reform, yet as Bob Hardt wrote in a recent NY1 column on the issue, «Never aggressively pushing campaign finance reform or transparency, Governor Cuomo seems content to play the master of Albany's current political game rather than rewriting its rules.

The EPA ethics rules that bar scientists with grants from serving on these committees also prohibit panel members from industry from working on issues affecting their companies, says the current chair of the BOSC, Deborah Swackhamer, a University of Minnesota professor of science, technology and public policy.

The Trust, the Adviser and the Distributor have each adopted codes of ethics (each a «Code») under Rule 17j - 1 under the 1940 Act that governs the personal securities transactions of their board members, officers and employees who may have access to current trading information of the Trust.

The state high court said the two had violated ethics rules governing conflicts with current and former clients by seeking relief adverse to the clients» interests.

Before that decision, lawyers who dropped current clients because of conflicts had converted them to past clients, which were governed by a more lenient ethics rule.

However, as we previously wrote in an article for the New York Legal Ethics Reporter, these attempts have been met with significant resistance by bar regulators and ethics committees largely owing to the current state of the law and ethics rules.

The current model of legal ethics, informing provincial rules of professional conduct, are based primarily on barrister dilemmas in relation to clients, courts and the wider public.

While some believe that a line - item review of each ethics rule is sufficient, others believe that an entire overhaul of the current rules is what's required.

I explained that we have plenty of ethics rules governing lawyers» activities, nothing needed to be passed to allow current legal blogging, and that blogging will be here for years to come.

We will also explore recent Georgia Composite Board rule revisions and additions relating to ethical considerations for LMFT's, explore the ethics of MFT self - care / wellness, and facilitate an open forum exploring current MFT ethical issues.

Change the system to allow for more robust enforcement of the current REBA rules, and ethics will largely (not all) take care of itself.