Sentences with phrase «ethics law proposal»

A circulating ethics law proposal could find its way onto the ballot as well.

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But Cuomo says «there's more to do» on overhauling ethics laws and he touts his own proposals on tightening anti-bribery laws and giving more power to district attorneys around the state to tackle corruption.

She then said «he» would determine where else it might be released, but she didn't specify if she was referring to the U.S. attorney or Schwartz before hastily ending the news conference in which Cuomo announced his proposals for ethics laws.

Reform groups are giving Gov. Andrew Cuomo an A for effort on his ethics proposals, but they say some of them need to go further, and Cuomo needs to follow through and actually get the plans enacted into law.

During his 2018 State of the State speech on Wednesday in Albany, Governor Andrew Cuomo spent little time on government ethics reform, but did address at somewhat greater length his proposals to increase access to the ballot box and change state campaign finance law.

Reform groups are giving Governor Cuomo an A for effort on his ethics proposals, but they say some of them need to go further, and Cuomo needs to follow through and actually get the plans enacted into law.

Cuomo has threatened not to approve a spending plan that didn't include his proposals to change ethics and education laws, but according to Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, a Bronx Democrat, has not mentioned it in private session.

At the same time, Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who publicly insists he wants meaningful ethics reform, is privately resisting one of Cuomo's key proposals, a requirement that all lawmakers disclose the clients they represent in their private law firms, legislative insiders said.

«Our proposal is to repeal in its entirety the 1989, 1994 and 2015 law and come up with a brand new complete comprehensive code of ethics,» Poloncarz announced.

ALBANY — Top lawmakers emerged from a private meeting with Governor Andrew Cuomo today saying they might consider proposals to change the state laws on ethics and education as standalone bills, despite Cuomo's attempt to bake language into his $ 141.6 billion spending proposal.

The package is actually the third ethics reform proposal to come out in the wake of twin corruption scandals that have rocked Albany: Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants to tighten anti-bribery laws while IDC Sen. Jeff Klein proposed a gigantic package that includes nearly every ethics proposal of the last decade.

Mr. Cuomo met with Republican senators on Tuesday to discuss his proposal for new ethics laws, particularly a measure requiring legislators who work part time as lawyers to reveal more of their clients, which has prompted concerns among the Republicans.

That sentiment has been echoed in recent days by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, a Democrat who promised as recently as Tuesday that his agenda for 2016 would include a «very aggressive ethics proposal,» despite his previous assertions that little could be done legislatively to solve venal behavior by lawmakers determined to break the law.

ALBANY — Senate Republicans are drafting language on changes to state ethics laws, including a proposal to disclose some law clients, indicating they are close to reaching agreement with Democrats.

The Senate, for instance, in its resolution regarding the version of the proposed 2017 - 18 state budget, they say the «Senate denies the Executive proposal to subject the legislature and the legislative ethics commission to the same freedom of information law provisions to which executive agencies are subject.

One explanation for the proposal's failures is that it appears to have been developed in conjunction with The Connecticut School Finance Project, a charter school advocacy front group that has been working closely — in violation of Connecticut's ethics laws — with Governor Dannel Malloy and his administration.

Recent ideas for reform have drawn on diverse sources, including the Carnegie Report, 6 as well as newly proposed recommendations for «best practices» in legal education7 and highly publicized accounts of changes in law school curricula at elite schools like Harvard.8 Like several earlier proposals, 9 these reform efforts concentrate on law schools» failure to deal systematically with training for legal practice, as well as on these schools» haphazard approach to teaching legal ethics.

To impose the additional obligations of [the third and fourth proposals] upon the many thousands of non incorporated law practices whose participants are required to observe their professional and other conduct obligations anyway is clearly unwarranted... [A regulator's audit] has the potential to interfere at a micro level in the running of a business, and is fraught with difficulty... This proposal is also seriously at odds with the expressed desire to reduce compliance costs... We recognize that risk management, improved practice management and a sound understanding of applied ethics will support improved practice.

The ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20 proposal and the NC State Bar proposed ethics opinion both represent important steps forward in clarifying the ethics of cloud computing, and it's encouraging to see both organizations take forward - looking positions on the use of technology in law firms.

This portion of the training will conclude with a brief talk about (a) some of the ethics opinions from the ABA and various states about Collaborative Practice, (b) some of the proposals for creating new ethics rules applicable to Collaborative Practice; and (c) whether in light of the Uniform Collaborative Law Act and the ABA ethics opinion approving the use of CP perhaps no new rules are needed.