Sentences with phrase «attorney ethics cases»

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Disbarred For ethics violations during his handling of the Duke lacrosse rape case, Durham County, N.C., district attorney Mike Nifong.

Officials were uncertain about whether a new Suffolk law requiring the county ethics board to release officials» financial disclosure publicly would apply to John Scott Prudenti, a district attorney bureau chief who rented his partyboat to criminal defense attorneys with cases before the DA's office.

Other question topics included how Cuomo's love of cars and motorcycles affects his actions on mass transit, the ongoing investigations of Mayor de Blasio's fundraising efforts in the 2014 senate elections and whether Cuomo has been questioned in those investigations, current legislative efforts at retroactively extending the statute of limitations in child sex abuse cases, the developing troubles of Suffolk County District Attorney Tom Spota and whether Cuomo will act to remove Spota, the likelihood of «ethics reform» passing in this legislative session, the timing of an inspector general's report on the 2015 Dannemora prison escape and Cuomo's planned trip to Italy.

Any cases they investigate would be referred to the attorney general, but Horner says the office does not initiate its own investigations and rarely — if ever — looks into possible ethics violations.

«His stubborn and unnecessary refusal to recuse himself taints the entire case and calls into question the ethics of the Ulster County district attorney,» said Sennett.

In addition to a possible state ethics commission probe, the Staten Island District Attorney, Dan Donovan, who has be chosen to serve as a special prosecutor in the case, has begun a criminal investigation into the charges against Assemblyman Lopez.

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 office of Inspector General Ellen N. Biben, which wrote the report, is referring the case to the state ethics commission and to the Albany County district attorney.

The blog also discusses important ethics cases relevant to the practicing attorney.»

«There are many recent cases where lawyers have found themselves in trouble because of their use of client confidential information in settings that might surprise people,» says Mary K. Foster, counsel to the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission (ARDC) review board and lecturer on legal ethics at Northwestern University School of Law.

Perhaps the most well - known recent case is that of Webster L. Hubbell, a former Associate Attorney General, chair of the Arkansas Bar Association's ethics committee, and a partner at the renowned Rose Law Firm.

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Question: The former attorney general of my state is under an ethics investigation, and I have some opinions about the case.

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Mike Cernovich wonders about the ethics of a law firm advertisement seeking talented attorneys to settle cases.

In many cases, ethics hotlines do not offer the in - depth information a lawyer would want, while hiring an ethics attorney would be overkill.

Further, even if the issue arises in another case where there is a controlling precedent, attorney ethics permit an attorney to make a good faith argument for a change in the law to any court, so if there is some good faith argument for doing so, the attorney can push that the issue be reconsidered.

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A graduate from Chicago - Kent College of Law, Ms. Genesen launched her career at the California State Bar, where, for four years, she oversaw high - profile attorney ethics and discipline cases as the lead legal and policy advisor to the Chief Trial Counsel.

Some attorneys believe that they understand legal ethics and state bar defense well enough to handle their own cases.

Claude Ducloux, an Austin lawyer who represents attorneys in the State Bar of Texas grievance process and is knowledgeable about legal ethics but who is not involved in the case, says the Supreme Court's ruling assures lawyers that when they have an unambiguous agreement with a client, that agreement is going to be valid and the client can not inject testimony into the case that the agreement says something else.

I can also resolve your day - to - day ethics questions quickly, so that your attorneys can work on their cases rather than spin their wheels researching ethics questions.

Led by Ms. Levenson, BHPK's ethics practice draws on her wealth of experience as former General Counsel to the State Ethics Commission and a former Assistant Attorney General, and the vast experience of founding partner Leonard Kesten counseling government officials, negotiating settlements for governmental entities and successfully trying cases on their behalf.

They understand the array of issues in fee dispute cases such as fee agreements, hourly rates, tasked performed, fee entitlement, attorney fee ethics, and fee award factors.

The Disciplinary Commission also found that there were potential ethical pitfalls for attorneys, including placing funds in a trust account, refunding unused money, performing ethics checks, and taking cases which the lawyer is competent to handle.

This has been a widely watched case among ethics attorneys like myself that follow the bouncing ball of state bar advertising restrictions and first amendment scholars looking at the «free speech» argument.

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In addition, I provide ethics consultations for social workers, case assessments to attorneys in social work ethics cases and family law cases.