Sentences with phrase «ethical infrastructure»

It can be useful, however, to keep the concepts of ethical infrastructure, ethical culture, and organizational culture distinct.
A comprehensive list of resources is available to help you further understand your obligations and build stronger ethical infrastructure in your organization.
[24] The Article concludes by suggesting that focusing on ethical infrastructure, ethical culture, and organizational culture can provide distinctive and complementary approaches to promoting and studying influences on ethical outcomes.
The ethical culture in a law firm thus provides the larger context in which individual action and the firm's ethical infrastructure operate.
: Canadian Law Societies and the Promotion of Effective Ethical Infrastructure in Law Practices.»
For example, the Nova Scotia Barristers» Society has begun pilot projects to test compliance regulation and begun the creation of ethical infrastructure for legal service providers and the direct regulation of those providers (i.e., law firms).
The new guide covers a wide range of topics such as how to keep informed about regulatory updates; changing your membership category or contact information; professional standards; the complaints process, insurance claims; and developing ethical infrastructure for managing your legal practice.
The self - assessment form that we are developing in Colorado is based upon ten principles for law firm ethical infrastructure.
[hereinafter Chambliss & Wilkins, Promoting Effective Ethical Infrastructure].
B.J., Dec. 2009, at 14, 15 (defining ethical infrastructure as «the organizational structure, practices and procedures a firm employs to promote ethical behavior»); Ted Schneyer, Professional Discipline for Law Firms?
Professor Salyzyn, who was also involved with the development of the CBA Ethical Practices Self - Evaluation Tool, describes ethical infrastructure as «everything within a law practice that impacts how members of that law practice relate to, or fulfil, the duties owed to clients, the justice system and the public more generally.»
Here in Canada, we should be looking at these developments and exploring how we might take a more proactive stance to promote ethical infrastructure within law firms.
Elizabeth Chambliss & David B. Wilkins, Promoting Effective Ethical Infrastructure in Large Law Firms: A Call for Research and Reporting, 30 HOFSTRA L. REV. 691, 694 (2002).
Law firms will be required to use these elements as principles for creating and maintaining an effective ethical infrastructure that fits the nature, scope and characteristics of their practice.
Canadian Law Societies and the Promotion of Ethical Infrastructure in Law Practices», (2015) 92 Canadian Bar Review, 507
I think that lawyer competence could be much better maintained and enhanced through robust bar admission and lawyer training quality - control systems, and that institutionalizing strict standards for professional responsibility within law practices could greatly improve the legal profession's ethical infrastructure.
Christine Parker et al., The Ethical Infrastructure of Legal Practices in Larger Law Firms: Values, Policy and Behaviour, 31 U. N.S.W. L.J. 158, 168 - 69 (2008).
, 77 CORNELL L. REV. 1, 10 (1991)(«[A] law firm's organization, policies, and operating procedures constitute an «ethical infrastructure» that cuts across particular lawyers and tasks.»).
Attention to this dimension of organizational life reflects an effort to promote an ethical culture that complements and reinforces a firm's ethical infrastructure.
Id.; see also, e.g., Chambliss & Wilkins, Promoting Effective Ethical Infrastructure, supra note 1, at 692 («[P] rofessional regulation increasingly depends on the development of «ethical infrastructure» within firms; that is, on organizational policies, procedures and incentives for promoting compliance with ethical rules.»
The second level, which provides the larger context for the first, is a firm's ethical infrastructure, which attempts in various ways to shape and channel that behavior.
[22] It describes in more detail attempts to accomplish this by developing an ethical infrastructure and promoting an ethical culture.
Recognition of the importance of these types of systems — sometimes called «ethical infrastructure» — is reflected in current Canadian law society explorations of new forms of entity regulation and proactive ways to help law firms deploy better management systems.
The self - assessments ask lawyers whether they have the ethical infrastructure to address these risks.
Ronald Minkoff moderates a panel on «The Ethical Infrastructure and Culture of Law Firms» at Hofstra Law School.
I argue this because the regime [7] offers the best means to engage with law firms about their ethical infrastructures — their management systems, their governance arrangements, their workplace cultures... We do this with the knowledge that a firm's ethical infrastructure is just as if not more important than a lawyer's character in shaping their conduct.
We want to understand how we as regulators can help attorneys... to have the tools they need to build an ethical infrastructure.
In particular, we want to understand how we as regulators can help attorneys, and especially sole practitioners and those in small firms, to have the tools they need to build an ethical infrastructure.
«We want to know that the tool is user friendly and offers real value to lawyers in providing what they need to enhance their ethical infrastructure,» says Pink.
We want to know that the tool is user friendly, that it's more than a survey and offers real value to lawyers in providing what they need to enhance their ethical infrastructure.
Under compliance - based entity regulation, lawyers and paralegals are required to implement a system of practice management principles, which is also sometimes referred to as an «ethical infrastructure
Elements of an ethical infrastructure might include a conflicts checking system or guidelines for client communications.
At p. 173 of his «Report of the Mississauga Judicial Inquiry: Updating the Ethical Infrastructure», the Commissioner recommended:
One possible solution to such issues could be, for example, for regulators to mandate and develop voluntary programs tailored specifically for the government lawyering context that government entities could use to improve their ethical infrastructures in relation to the delivery of legal services.
The term «ethical infrastructure» (coined by Ted Schneyer, a law professor at the University of Arizona) is just a fancy way of talking about the systems, procedures and policies that a law firm has in place to ensure that lawyers properly discharge their ethical duties.
In Australia, in particular, regulators have broadened their focus beyond reacting to client complaints to put in place measures to proactively engage with law firms to promote the development of effective «ethical infrastructure».
The Project explores how attitudes to professional ethics are shaped by: individual and team conceptions of the role of in - house lawyers; professional principles and codes of conduct; and the «ethical infrastructure», pressure and relationships within the employing organisation.
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