Sentences with phrase «ethics lawyer under»

Richard Painter, the former chief White House ethics lawyer under Bush, tweeted last Friday that Bolton «was by far the most dangerous man we had in the entire eight years of the Bush Administration.»

Trump's criticism of a company that distanced itself from his daughter's brand shows «un-presidential behavior and potentially much worse,» said Richard Painter, a former top White House ethics lawyer under President George W. Bush.

Not exact matches

Norm Eisen, who served as an ethics lawyer in the Obama White House and now chairs the left - leaning Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics, which has repeatedly challenged Trump, said it might have to do with the fact that Cohen is under criminal investigation in New York.

Regardless of how lucrative or fulfilling a side job can be, lawyers are obligated to ensure what they're engaging in is also ethical under the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct and state ethics rules.

At Ethics Alarms, Jack Marshall posted that the hoax could constitute an ethics violation under New York disciplinary rules for lawyers, a notion that Turkewitz dismissed with aplomb.

When an attorney breaches any of these fiduciary duties by acting negligently / incompetently or failing to uphold standards under lawyer ethics or the professional code of conduct, a client may have an action for legal malpractice.

Some of lawyers» attacks on social workers were shocking to those social workers, who asserted that they worked under their own code of ethics, and that the fact that these suggestions were even made demonstrated a failure to recognize that social workers themselves were professionals.

Thus, when a lawyer departs a firm, under most ethics codes such as this one, the firm must inform the client that he or she has the right to follow the departing lawyer.

Restrictive advertising rules for NY are under review by the 2nd Circuit, and a plan to implement a program for pre-publishing approval of lawyer ads in Louisiana is still winding its way through Federal court (as tweeted by La. ethics attorney Beth Alston).

We can talk about what that means under the ethics rules, but just to know the reason I bring it up now, it's just to point out that the freelance lawyer need not be admitted in your jurisdiction, and in fact, over my career, I've worked with lawyers all over the country.

So it should come as no surprise that some have started talking about charging law school deans with ethics charges under Rule 8.4 (c), which prohibits «dishonesty, fraud, deceit, and misrepresentation» by lawyers.

As this AP article (11/2/02) reports, under Florida's newly issued ethics rules, lawyers must now obtain prior approval for television and radio commercials (apparently, the rules don't apply to Weblogs).

[3] Although lawyers who serve as third - party neutrals do not have information concerning the parties that is protected under Rule 1.6, they typically owe the parties an obligation of confidentiality under law or codes of ethics governing third - party neutrals.

Insofar as section 15 (2) of the policy permits disclosures that might be permitted under American ethics rules but are not permitted under Canadian ethics rules, the proposed policy risks conflict with the existing law governing lawyers in our country and could create a messy situation for lawyers trying to determine how to conduct themselves in accordance with the law.

(US Answer) Under the Model Rules of Professional Conduct, «A lawyer may reveal information relating to the representation of a client to the extent the lawyer reasonably believes necessary... to prevent reasonably certain death or substantial bodily harm...» Most states have incorporated the MRPC into their own state legal ethics codes.

In this column I want to use that scandal to consider a more specific legal ethics issue: when lawyers are consulted about a criminal course of conduct, under what circumstances is that consultation confidential and privileged?

According to Lemay, a Quebec City lawyer with Tremblay Bois Mignault Lemay, who specializes in municipal law and teaches an ethics course to newly elected municipal politicians, ethical and conflict questions and considerations under the dispositions of Quebec's eight - year - old Municipal Ethics and Good Conduct Act need to be evaluated in the context in which they arise.

So, while the ethics of doing so remains up in the air in New York, lawyers and law firms in all jurisdictions would be wise to think twice before listing their areas of practice under those sections of their LinkedIn profiles.

Under lawyers» rules of ethics, lawyers in the same firm are like a single lawyer.