REALTORS ® shall not intentionally impede the Board's investigative or disciplinary proceedings by filing multiple
ethics complaints based on the same event or transaction.
Standard of Practice 14 - 4 REALTORS ® shall not intentionally impede the Board's investigative or disciplinary proceedings by filing multiple
ethics complaints based on the same event or transaction.
Not exact matches
«A full review of the facts by both JCOPE and the Special Prosecutor has found that all actions by the Assembly were lawful and there was no
basis for an
ethics complaint against the Speaker or his staff.»
We have written frequently here about the series of
ethics complaints filed in some 47 states by by Connecticut lawyer Zenas Zelotes against Chicago -
based Total Attorneys and its lawyer - founder Kevin Chern.
Eric Cooperstein is a Minneapolis -
based attorney who advises attorneys on ethical issues and defends attorneys who are subject to
ethics complaints.
However, Florida Realtors is not a legal agency (it does have a Code of
Ethics which its members are required to follow even though failure to follow the code will not result in the loss of license or the award of damages to someone who has been wronged in a real estate deal — also, you can not file a lawsuit
based upon a member of the trade association failing to follow one of the organization's
ethics rules — although you can file a
complaint with the group about any wrongdoing that may have happened).
In such instances the respondent (s) should be provided with a copy of the
ethics complaint and advised that failure to respond may be the
basis for a charge of having violated Article 14 of the Code of
Ethics.
Dismissals of
ethics complaints and arbitration requests by hearing panels can be appealed to the Board of Directors on the same
bases as dismissals by the Grievance Committee.
If the practitioner went beyond that and had «dealings» with your client, there may be
basis for an
ethics complaint.