Sentences with phrase «duties to clients on»

Insurance Broking, including brokers» duties to clients on preparation of proposals, notification of insured events and other communications with underwriters; Underwriting decisions; Reports for insured parties and underwriters in cases where underwriters are seeking to avoid a policy; Disputes between insurers and reinsurers; and Personal insurance cover, including life and health insurance, residential property, PPI and motor claims.

Not exact matches

A volunteer skeleton staff remains on duty in case a client needs help, but everyone else gets to kick back in relax.

The memo, obtained by Bloomberg News, makes the case for a Labor Department regulation that would impose a fiduciary duty on brokers handling retirement accounts, requiring them to act in their clients» best interest.

In the section on «Duty to Provide Advice That Is in the Client's Best Interest,» the proposal states:

While the SEC considers whether to extend a fiduciary duty to all advice givers, and the Department of Labor forges ahead on its revised definition of fiduciary, HighTower has moved ahead on its own, wrapping a strict fiduciary standard into a business model that meets client needs while giving top Wall Street brokers an innovative home from which to serve those clients and grow their individual businesses.

With the implementation date of the Department of Labor's fiduciary rule looming large in April, all attention has been focused on how financial advisors and their Financial Institutions are making adjustments to manage their compensation conflicts of interest, to avoid breaching the fiduciary's fundamental duty of loyalty to act in the client's best interests.

Any adviser that makes a recommendation based on technical analysis will have a hard time making a straight - faced argument to clients (or a court) that they fulfilled their fiduciary duties.

While the Department of Labor has not provided specific guidance about exactly how advisors fulfill fiduciary duties while making investment recommendations, we think it means advisors need to rely on research that is (1) un-conflicted and (2) inarguably in the best interest of clients.

This case turns on the duty of integrity owed by Barclays to its clients.

«In the light of the pending case including our client's motion for interlocutory injunction, Your Lordship is under clear duty to stay action on the activities of your commission until the pending case is determined.

-- Personally analyzed over 13,000 consumer credit reports for clients — Register and Bonded to perform these duties — Educational Instructor For Kaplan University — Texas Real - Estate Commission MCE Educational provider — Ebby Halliday Instructor — Fair Credit Reporting Act Certified by the Consumer Data Industry Association — Numerous Guest appearances on local Dallas / Ft Worth TV News Programs — Credit Article Source for: AOL Finance, Credit Cards.com, Bankrate.com, Dun & Bradstreet among many others.

I would advise clients to always obtain their own inspection report as I believe there was an Ontario court ruling some years ago that a buyer can not rely on an inspection report prepared for a seller and therefore there is no recourse against the inspector and no fiduciary duty required from the sellers inspector.

Duties include: Perform 30 to 35 high - quality spay / neuter surgeries per work day on dogs, cats and rabbits Manage a team of three veterinary technicians Oversee volunteers assisting with clinics Document client communication and surgical notes on a Web - based records system Address any post-op complications or concerns by clients in a professional and timely manner Maintain and troubleshoot surgery equipment and vehicle equipment Attend staff and doctors» meetings monthly

«While Call of Duty: WWII clearly had a great holiday, which likely sets up strong franchise live services revenue in 2018, Destiny 2 is struggling right now with player engagement appearing to be on the wane,» analyst Doug Creutz wrote in a note to clients Tuesday entitled «Destiny is Not in a Good Place.»

Timothy O'Shea, senior vice president at Jefferies, sent a note to clients stating that «We see a buying opportunity as Activision Blizzard shares have traded down ~ 11 % in the past week on fears Epic's mega-hit Fortnite could siphon engagement & monetization away from games like Call of Duty, potentially pressuring near - term results.»

As Justice Newbury points out, lawyer and client are not typical contracting parties and are not equal; among other things, the lawyer owes a fiduciary duty to the client, owes professional duties to the court, takes on most or all of the financial risk, and possesses expertise that the client lacks (para. 92).

I agree with J.G. that the questions are good but may flow better divided into categories such as: legal practice licencing: character, competence and ethics, duties and limits to client, court and profession; scope, roles and rules on virtual services and fees, responsibility and regulation, malpractice and compensation, etc..

Lawyers have voluntarily agreed to duties and responsibilities undertaken on behalf of their clients.

Some legal experts agree with the opinion's emphasis on describing the broad nature of a lawyer's duty to protect confidential client information.

Equity also imposed a duty of fairness on solicitors in contracting with clients, requiring the solicitor to establish, for example, that the client understood the agreement, that the price was reasonable, and «that the transaction was in all respects fair, and such as an independent solicitor who had performed his duty, would have advised his client to enter into.»

For instance, based on the European system of prevention of money laundering and terrorist financing, financial institutions have to monitor the transactions of all their clients and have the duty to report suspicious transactions.

In August 2011, the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility issued Formal Opinion 11 - 459 relating to a lawyer's duty to protect the confidentiality of electronic communications with clients.

Based on those facts, the question for the ethics committee was whether Lawyer B had a duty to safeguard the client information relayed by Lawyer A.

Furthermore, Proclaim will eliminate a number of administrative duties including document production, and will enable staff to focus on building strong client relationships.

The opinion goes so far as to note that a lawyer who becomes aware that the client is receiving personal email on a workplace computer or other device owned or controlled by the employer has a duty to warn that this practice should be discontinued.

Seen in context, it's clear that paragraph 8 of the commentary to section 6.3.1 (3) doesn't impose a duty on lawyers to promote equality, it does impose an obligation on lawyers, in fulfilling their duty not to discriminate, to accommodate employees and clients — consistent with Ontario Human Rights Law, which has the effect of promoting equality.

It is your personal injury lawyers job to present clear evidence on the duties their client is or is not able to perform; and if conceivable — conclude how the injuries sustained in the accident has left them unemployable.

Overlaying this statutory duty on top of a wholesale client's contractual protections may be of concern to providers.

The Third Circuit in In re Bevill Bresler & Schulman Asset Management Corp., developed a five - part test (the Bevill test) to examine the merits of such an assertion by an individual employee against company counsel.50 Under this test, employees must show that (1) they approached corporate counsel for the purpose of seeking legal advice; (2) they made it clear that they were seeking advice in their individual capacity; (3) counsel sought to communicate with the employee in this individual capacity, mindful of the conflicts with its representation of the company; (4) the communications were confidential; and (5) the communications did not concern the employee's official duties or the general affairs of the company.51 The Bevill test has been recognised by other jurisdictions as a means of assessing whether a company employee may assert attorney — client privilege in an individual capacity arising out of communications with corporate counsel.52 (See also Chapter 13 on employee rights.)

Their main duties are to advocate and advise clients on legal matters and thus, they are involved in almost every aspect of everyday life.

In contemplation of the imminent announcement to abandon the Two Tier contracting process, the Big Firms» Group calls on the Ministry of Justice to implement a further, short, «freeze» of the duty solicitor rotas pending swift consultation with regards the structure of duty solicitor scheme rules that should stand alongside the 2015 Own Client Contract,... Read more»

In order to perform their duty effectively, lawyers research on laws, the intent of those laws and the judicial decisions that are relevant to their client's circumstance so as to make a knowledgeable decision.

John has counseled clients in actions based on violation of state and federal securities laws relating to the sale of unregistered securities and fraudulent investment schemes, and in employment controversies that focus on non-solicitation agreements and alleged breach of fiduciary duty.

As NSU explains, «This course provides hands - on experience for students on a number of key operational aspects of the practice of law, including the business foundation of successful law firm management; security and confidentiality of client information; marketing, public relations, advertising and social media; duties of technological competence under ABA «Ethics 20/20» amendments to the Model Rules of Professional Responsibility; predictive coding and other eDiscovery issues; client intake and case management; and issues related to the scope and composition of representation, including the unauthorized practice of law and unbundled legal services.»

Paralegals must understand and fulfill their duty to preserve and protect client confidentiality on behalf of your law firm.

In contrast to the coaching approach discussed above, it is the duty of the defence attorney to act zealously on behalf of the client.

The CBA's Code of Professional Conduct on Obligatory Withdrawal states: «4 (a) if the lawyer is instructed by the client to do something inconsistent with the lawyer's duty to the court or tribunal and, following explanation, the client persists in such instructions etc.;» Regrettably, I believe the B.C. SC has totally missed the point: upholding the law comes first and therefore, anyone engaging in white - collar criminal activity should be charged or the public will loose faith and confidence in the independence and impartiality of the Justice System.

On the other there is a duty to the court to disclose any relevant information that the prosecution could not reasonably be aware of, and the client is using (and incidentally jeopardising) your professional reputation to bolster his falsehoods, which is no part of your job.

The Federation rode to this result on the strength of the sanctity solicitor - client privilege and of lawyers» duty of loyalty to their clients.

On the civil side, no matter what, it is still the law that, so long as the lawyer is prepared to act for the client, the lawyer's duty is to put the client's interest first and do whatever is legal to fulfill the retainer.

On the civil side, lawyers for both plaintiff and defendant breach their duties to their client if they put the interest of justice, or some other person, ahead of their client interest without instructions from the client to do so.

We advise clients on corporate compliance and governance issues, providing continuous, up - to - date information on duties and responsibilities of corporate officers.

, 2016 • «Foreign Anti-Corruption Compliance: Director and Office Obligations and Considerations», Corporate Governance by Federated Press, Volume IX, No. 4, 2013 • Canada Gets Tough on Corruption, February 2013 • «Why You Should Think About an Anti-Corruption Compliance Program», TechSTARTUPCenter.com, April 2013 • «Tendering Law: The Evolution of the Duty of Fairness and What it Means for Clients», Presentation, 18th East Region Solicitors Conference 2012 • Panelist, Government of Canada, Economic Action Plan Roundtable: «Helping Businesses Sell to the Government of Canada», 2011 • «A Comparison of Canada's Proposed Consumer Product Safety Legislation (Bill C - 52) and its American Counterpart», Focus on Federal Advocacy and Policy, June 2008

Only when the state's imposition of duties on lawyers undermines, in fact or in the perception of a reasonable person, the lawyer's ability to comply with his or her duty of commitment to the client's cause that there will be a departure from what is required by this principle of fundamental justice.

«There is force in [the submission] that [the defence solicitor] had no regard for his duties under the Criminal Procedure Rules but preferred to proceed opportunistically on behalf of his client.

The state could not impose obligations on lawyers which would undermine their duty of commitment to their clients:

We consider that to be our duty and we are selling, we say services that the client can not properly evaluate on their own.

The historic gap, which in the past has been canyon-esque as I'm fond of saying, this is where the courts developed the idea of fiduciary duty because as there were such dependence on the part of the client on the service provider because the client doesn't know and the client can't be expected to know whether or not they're being treated fairly or properly or what have you to getting good, you're getting good services, and I don't think that gap will ever close entirely but we are seeing the purchasers of legal services becoming more knowledgeable and more sophisticated, there is.

Failing to address these issues properly puts the expert in breach of duty to the court to help the court on matters within the expert's expertise, in breach of duty to the client to use reasonable skill and care in providing his / her services in writing a report, and in breach of a professional duty.

With at best stagnant values since 2007, the lenders reaped the reward of poor lending decisions in the form of losses on repossession while solicitors pay the resultant claims if they have failed in their duty to those clients.