Sentences with phrase «ethics body»

Similar to other model rules, those focused on advertising and communication are meant as guidelines for state ethics bodies to adopt.

She has the requisite experience and needed integrity to take on the enormous challenge of serving as this new ethics body's first executive director.

It is only a matter of time before ethics bodies across the nation formally recognize this.

While calling for his own investigation of the Buffalo Billion, Cuomo has simultaneously downplayed the role of the state's existing ethics body in preventing possible conflicts of interest.

«One of my office's top priorities is to restore New Yorkers» faith in their state government, and that means we need to arm our top ethics body with strong and effective leaders,» Schneiderman said.

The day after House Republicans voted to eliminate an independent ethics body, members returned to work to find their offices inundated with angry missives from constituents amid a national uproar.

«It is crazy that some team of lawyers is asking for members of a national ethics body to resign just for doing their job, for which they have a parliamentary mandate,» says CESHE Chairman Ivica Vilibić, a researcher at the Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries in Split, Croatia.

If someone complained about the judge's conduct to a judicial ethics body in Texas, the judge would very likely receive a private reprimand or maybe if the ethics panel was particularly incensed, a public reprimand, but only because he lost his cool on the bench, not because he required the potential juror to stick around until another suitable case could be found.

Various legal ethics bodies have decided that it is unethical for lawyers to try to friend the adverse party — or to hire someone to do so — in order to access private pages on FB.

When I wrote about the proposed opinion last February, I called it a harbinger, writing, «It is only a matter of time before ethics bodies across the nation call for competence in e-discovery.»

«Citizens Union commends the appointment of New York State's Inspector General Ellen N. Biben as Executive Director of the New York State Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE), the new state ethics body having joint jurisdiction over both the legislative and the executive branches.

Karl Sleight, the former executive director of the now - defunct New York State Ethics Commission, compared the development of state ethics bodies to the accumulation of shale.

Its website to help the public decipher the state's complicated lobbying structure is nearly incomprehensible, its built - in commissioner vetoes of politically sensitive investigations causes it to operate «like no other respected» ethics body, and the near constant closed door meetings give it the «appearance of obfuscation and shielding.»

It might sound a small market, but the idea has enough potential that a non-governmental organisation called TechForTrade in London is already establishing an ethics body to ensure it doesn't lead to exploitation of the waste - pickers by, say, companies or gangs, the group told a conference in Nottingham, UK, last week.

More to the point, blogs are here to stay, and no ethics body can change that, he says.

Virtually all courts and ethics bodies have concluded that a departing lawyer is permitted — prior to departure — to notify his or her clients of an imminent move from the firm.