Sentences with phrase «ethical misconduct in»

Megan Zavieh helps lawyers facing allegations of ethical misconduct in California by helping them directly or teaching them to represent themselves.

Not exact matches

As much as the solution depends on having procedures in place to handle ethical misconduct, it's really about the culture — what's accepted and what's not.

The crackdown on corporate crime sparked six years ago by accounting scandals at Enron and WorldCom has done little to foster ethical behavior in the workplace, where many employees are still afraid to speak out about misconduct, a new study finds.

In the NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions» decision, the panel found a former Notre Dame athletic training student violated NCAA ethical conduct rules when she committed academic misconduct for two football student - athletes and provided six other football student - athletes with impermissible academic extra benefits.

Silver, who would become the longest - serving speaker in state history next year, has survived previous ethical scandals, including widespread complaints over his handling of sexual harassment charges against former Assemblyman Vito Lopez and the earlier conviction of his top aide, Michael Boxley, on a charge of sexual misconduct.

Denying all reports of ethical or political misconduct, Bennett explained in a statement after stepping down, «I don't believe it would be fair to be distracted» to continue serving as commissioner amid the controversy.

Former Senator Skelos is thirty - third state lawmaker forced from office because of ethical misconduct or corruption since 2000 with half of them — 16 — taking place in the past five years alone.

Walker also would end the ability of individual donors to give unlimited sums to recall election targets — so long as recalls were restricted to situations involving «misconduct in office or some other ethical issue.»

«Charlie Rangel might not have been found guilty of ethical misconduct yet, but there is proof beyond a reasonable doubt that he helped build the Democratic majority by padding the campaign war chests of dozens of members of congress with millions of dollars in contributions,» said NRCC communications director Ken Spain.

In a twist on the typical scientific ethics discussion, the IOM report and companion meeting shifted the spotlight from a negative perspective — preventing scientific misconduct — to the more positive one of encouraging ethical research practices.

The interests of the CSFR and the NCLS aligned well on many SFRL projects, conferences, publications, and AAAS annual meeting symposia such as on the ethical and legal implications of genetic testing; use of animals in research and education; scientific misconduct and research integrity; use of scientific and technical information in the courts; ethical and legal aspects of computer network use and abuse; effects of national security controls on unclassified research, and the impact of neuroscience on the legal system.

The paper inflamed public fears about vaccines, but it was retracted in 2010 after the UK General Medical Council (GMC) concluded that Wakefield had a charge of serious professional misconduct to answer, in part because it found that his team did not have proper ethical approval for tests performed on the children.

Nick Steneck, director of research ethics and integrity at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, says authorities worldwide should adopt a uniform misconduct policy that provides clear guidance not only on data falsification and fabrication but also on lesser ethical breaches — such as self - plagiarism.

However, it is well appreciated by all that responsible conduct, as opposed to misconduct, encompasses many other aspects of ethical behavior in the practice of scientific research.

The American Society of Plant Biologists expects authors submitting to and publishing in its journals to adhere to ethical standards for scholarship and to ensure that the work they submit to or publish in the journals is free of scientific misconduct.

SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER 2008, PAGE 8 Addressing Ethical Standards: Mentor Involvement in Research Misconduct

An investigation related to this research has been conducted by the Expert Group for Misconduct in Research at the Swedish Central Ethical Review Board on behalf of Karolinska Institutet.

School board policies and procedures must include standards for screening, hiring, and terminating instructional personnel and school administrators, as defined in s. 1012.01; standards of ethical conduct for instructional personnel and school administrators; the duties of instructional personnel and school administrators for upholding the standards; detailed procedures for reporting alleged misconduct by instructional personnel and school administrators which affects the health, safety, or welfare of a student; requirements for the reassignment of instructional personnel or school administrators pending the outcome of a misconduct investigation; and penalties for failing to comply with s. 1001.51 or s. 1012.795.

And note the ethical misconduct suborned from economists and climatologists that goes beyond that already committed in AGW.

Bottom line, I find crisper things like the definition of academic misconduct (Marcotts hockey stick), fact based full cost / benefit (impact of intermittency on grid stability), and Feynman's admonitions in Cargo Cult Science to be sufficient conduct guides without getting too deeply into murkier ethical considerations.

Despite the fact that the law society itself has found little evidence that past misconduct is a meaningful predictor of future behavior, the good character requirement is designed to protect the public, to maintain high ethical standards and to maintain public confidence in the legal profession.

In addition to his litigation practice, Richard has also served as the Executive Director and counsel to the Council on Probate Judicial Conduct, which investigates and adjudicates formal complaints of ethical misconduct against the elected Probate Judges in ConnecticuIn addition to his litigation practice, Richard has also served as the Executive Director and counsel to the Council on Probate Judicial Conduct, which investigates and adjudicates formal complaints of ethical misconduct against the elected Probate Judges in Connecticuin Connecticut.

Nonetheless, the significance of her ethical violations, the centrality of those violations to the ethical duties of lawyers, and the fact that she and Kent were in a lawyer - client relationship, make her admission of professional misconduct, and the severity of the sanction, understandable.

Representing a law firm in litigation arising from the misconduct of a partner and related ethical issues.

We take pride in our commitment to our clients and maintain highly ethical practices while holding negligible parties accountable for their misconduct and reckless actions.

In the same vein, remember not all ethical misconduct is created equal and it is absolutely fine to deal with different misconduct differently and some not at all.

(New York: Oxford University Press, 1989); Lawyers in the Dock: Learning from Attorney Disciplinary Proceedings (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008); Lawyers on Trial: Understanding Ethical Misconduct (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011).

Notwithstanding the above, a lawyer counselling another lawyer has an ethical obligation to report to the Law Society upon learning that the lawyer being assisted is engaging in or may in the future engage in serious misconduct or criminal activity related to the lawyer's practice or there is a substantial risk that the lawyer may in the future engage in such conduct or activity.

For the attack from the citadel, the allegations of ethical misconduct by psychologists contained in the Petition to the APA are consistent with my professional obligations under Standards 1.04 and 1.05 to take appropriate action «when psychologists believe that there may have been an ethical violation by another psychologist» (Standard 1.04).