Sentences with phrase «ethical lawyer who»

I recommend her to anyone who wants a smart, ethical lawyer who gets the job done efficiently.

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Deborah Rhode, a Stanford law professor and leading scholar on legal ethics, argues in her book, Pro Bono in Principle and in Practice (2005), that lawyers bear an ethical duty to ameliorate «their monopoly's deleterious effects» by doing more pro bono work for those who are disenfranchised.

Ask any lawyer who complains about a supposed decline in the ethical tone of the legal profession to name the beast, and the answer is apt to be «commercialization.»

It is simply not credible that Mr. Agata, who was Governor Cuomo's lawyer and represented him on ethics issues, can objectively investigate potential ethical violations by the governor or his political enemies.

How would a lawyer of 25 years who also is a SAN pretend not to know the ethical implication of offering financial help to a judge before whom he was defending a case?

Roman J. Israel, Esq. (Nov. 22): Dan Gilroy directs Denzel Washington as Israel, an idealistic lawyer who takes over a less - than - ethical firm.

The film, the story of a lawyer's internal ethical dilemma and consequences of action also starred Colin Farrell, who was absent, despite having been present for The Killing of a Sacred Deer earlier in the festival.

I still work with an agent who is also a lawyer, and is probably more ethical than I am.

People who have worked with the lawyer described him to TheDCNF as ruthless, greedy and unbothered by ethical questions.»

As a result of his having won their support, he was appointed in 1988 for a seven year term, which was renewed in 1995 and 2002, and then this year [2008] determined by them to be a permanent post because of changes in employment law — an interpretation questioned on both legal and ethical grounds by lawyer and Stuckist artist, Leo Goatley, who has written to the Culture Minister to express his concerns.

Lawyers who abuse privilege can generally be held accountable under the ethical confidentiality rule and also under other more general conduct rules.

With current ethical principles as baselines, supplementary codes tailored to the dilemmas that come with representing or advising the State would clarify ethical duties of lawyers who are simultaneously public servants.

Alice Woolley has written thoughtfully about the questionable claims often contained in these letters and the important ethical questions raised by the practice of some «lawyers sending out demand letters based on spurious claims in the hope of extracting funds because of the fear and ignorance of those who receive them» (see, e.g., here, here and here).

There seem to be many ethical and professional pitfalls involved for lawyers who are considering it.

Second, lawyers who wish to be considered ethical (again, presumably that's most of us) should «take reasonable measures to protect a client's confidential information from inadvertent disclosure, unauthorized disclosure, and unauthorized access, regardless of the medium used.»

There are reasons that people hire lawyers to write these sorts of ethics rules into company codes of conduct: (1) companies realized placing the entire onus on the person who has suffered discrimination or harassment to personally prosecute their claims is absurd and good employees would seek out corporations that don't sanction such conduct; and (2) businesses understood that providing ethical and social norms of behavior could go some distance to preventing bad behavior.

Luckily — from the perspective of people who like a bit of convenience, even if they're not terribly concerned about data privacy — a string of legal ethical opinions, including Formal Opinion No. 99 - 413 of the American Bar Association and the Law Society of BC's April 1998 opinion on the transmission of confidential information over the internet, seemed to offer near - absolution to lawyers from concern over unencrypted email.

Given the potential ethical minefield and potential liability issues that could arise as a result of payment of referral fees, a far better course of action may be to eschew referral fees entirely and take the approach taken by one lawyer who says:

Although no state has found ethical wrongdoing by Total Attorneys or by any of the lawyers who participate in it, all eyes were on Zelotes» home state of Connecticut, where the chief disciplinary counsel found cause to file charges against five attorneys.

Lawyers, we're told, understand their ethical obligations, and should not be barred from government work simply because they previously represented clients who kind of hate the government.

Rendleman posits a hypothetical case involving a lawyer who's also a rancher: If an employee cowpoke happens to know the rancher is a lawyer and asks to come in to the rancher's law office to talk about a legal problem, that's ethical.

For those who are unfamiliar with NITA, it is a not - for - profit organization whose focus is to train and mentor lawyers to be competent and ethical advocates in pursuit of justice.

Fellowship in the ACTL is extended by invitation to only those experienced trial lawyers who have mastered the art of advocacy and whose careers have been marked by the highest ethical standards, professionalism and civility.

Fellowship in the College is extended by invitation only to experienced trial lawyers who have mastered the art of advocacy and whose professional careers have been marked by the highest standards of ethical conduct, professionalism, civility and collegiality.

In a decision that could be a harbinger of how other states will rule, the State Bar of California has now said that lawyers who handle litigation have an ethical duty to be competent in e-discovery or associate with others who have that competence.

Law society regulation exists to establish general rules applicable to all members to ensure ethical conduct, protect the public and discipline lawyers who breach the rules: the good governance of the profession.

«The biggest minefield I see is overworked or inattentive lawyers failing to provide adequate direction and supervision, leaving the paralegal to figure things out on [their] own,» says Salt Lake City lawyer Keith A. Call, who has written about ethical issues involving paralegals in the Utah Bar Journal.

No state has found any ethical wrongdoing by Total Attorneys or by any of the lawyers who participate in it.

The rule also explains that a lawyer who has supervisory authority over nonlawyers is responsible for the ethical violations committed by such nonlawyers.

Though these lawyers deserved their penalty, the case is sad nonetheless: that two lawyers who had the talent and drive to bring DuPont to its knees didn't have the restraint or discipline to stop themselves from the crossing an ethical line.

Fellowship is extended by invitation only and only after careful investigation, to those experienced trial lawyers who have mastered the art of advocacy and whose professional careers have been marked by the highest standards of ethical conduct, professionalism, civility and collegiality.

Those lawyers who meet the «Very High» criteria of General Ethical Standards can proceed to the next step in the ratings process - Legal Ability.

In this case, it is Eric Turkewitz at New York Personal Injury Law Blog, who says that lawyers will wake up in about two years to an ethical problem with their iPhones.

By presenting ethical training as the sort of «easy» course students take in order to graduate, law schools may simply be creating new lawyers who are, as Professor Rosemary Cairns Way described, only «rhetorically committed» to equality.

The far bigger issue with Hamilton's study and recommendations, however, is their underlying assumption that it is ethical people (and lawyers) who create ethical practice.

Keep in mind that the agreement between the lawyer and the firm can not contradict either party's ethical obligations, but it may well create obligations beyond those imposed by the ethical rules, and it may also dictate who takes on certain ethical obligations discussed below.

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The judge who ordered the lawyer take the selfie down was concerned about the emotional, privacy, and ethical issues in play.

Fellowship in the College is extended by invitation only and only after careful investigation, to those experienced trial lawyers who have mastered the art of advocacy and whose professional careers have been marked by the highest standards of ethical conduct, professionalism, civility and collegiality.

Finally, this article concludes that lawyers who fail to explore the ethical use of AI in their practices may find themselves at a professional disadvantage and in dire ethical straits.

But I can not say that a professor who disagrees with me, who in her instruction grounds a lawyer's ethical duties in moral obligation, or who views the lawyer's decisions as properly informed by the values and norms of her community, including her religious community, fails to instruct her students in legal ethics.

However, an ethical lawyer, according to Law Societies, is someone who follows the rules.

Many new / young lawyers who have worked for title insures are very concerned with the ethical issues of certifying title in a commoditized manner.

And in practice, the most articulate proponents of the defending narrative — Marie Henein would be a good example — are also the lawyers who could (and do) give master classes on how to vigorously cross-examine a witness in a sexual assault case in a manner consistent with their legal and ethical obligations.

He has attained an AV ® Preeminent ™ peer - review rating from Martindale - Hubbell, signifying the highest level of professional excellence based upon peer review evaluation from lawyers and judges who have observed his legal skill and ethical standards.

First off, the notion that a lawyer who may have committed malpractice or an ethical violation and the lawyer's client have the same interest in upholding ethical conduct is, to put it mildly, naïve; law firms have separate interests to protect in those situations that may be very different from the client's.

Eight advisory opinions were issued, and the staff authored three ethics guides on the subjects of succession planning for lawyers and law firms, the ethical obligations of lawyers who are changing law firms, and considerations for lawyers who are leaving the practice of law to take judicial office.

As a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, Mr. Hueston is among less than 1 percent of active lawyers who have «mastered the art of advocacy and whose professional careers have been marked with the highest standards of ethical conduct, professionalism, civility and collegiality.Lawyers, Mr. Hueston is among less than 1 percent of active lawyers who have «mastered the art of advocacy and whose professional careers have been marked with the highest standards of ethical conduct, professionalism, civility and collegiality.lawyers who have «mastered the art of advocacy and whose professional careers have been marked with the highest standards of ethical conduct, professionalism, civility and collegiality.»

guidance to lawyers who wish to begin solo or small firm practices, including professionalism challenges and ethical pitfalls likely to arise in such settings.

Litigation partner Steve Baughman was named Vice President of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Bar Association on March 22, following an election held at the organization's second annual conference in Washington, D.C. Formed through the collaboration and financial support of more than 45 law firms, including Paul, Weiss, the PTAB Bar Association serves as a forum for communications between the PTAB and other stakeholders, and aims to preserve and promote the highest professional and ethical standards among lawyers and stakeholders who appear before the PTAB.