However,
some ethics opinions have considered the need for lawyers to consider the risk of emails being intercepted.
In addition to issues of quality, Bruce Green has noted that
ethics opinions have also come under criticism for dealing with «trivial subjects» and for lacking persuasive value with courts (with respect to this later point, however, Green notes that there is some disagreement in the literature as to whether this is actually true).
A number of state
ethics opinions have addressed professional responsibility issues related to attorneys» use of various technologies.
Several of
the ethics opinions have talked about the idea that it's ok to go out and get outside help when you don't have the competence yourself.
The practice of issuing
ethics opinions has been subject to some criticism in the United States.
Not exact matches
Whether it is noise, work
ethic, cleanliness, or appropriateness, every generation and person in the space can and times will
have a different
opinion of what is annoying and should be considered as acceptable.
The
ethics have changed based on societal
opinion.
But, in my
opinion, the western Christianity
has a serious problem on the field of
ethics (and not only on the field of sexual
ethics).
In my
opinion this world
would be a lot better off if religion did nt exist and we all lived our lives by a simple and clear code of
ethics.
I am of the
opinion that a lesser player with a better team
ethic would improve the team overall.
Regardless of your
opinions of Alisher Usmanov, regardless of the rights and wrongs of his business
ethics and regardless of if we
would have suffered due to the Russian economic trouble at present this fact tells you all you need to know about what's wrong with our club.
Funny enough, the «college» of midwives of BC doesn't
have an
opinion on the
ethics of that behaviour.
An
opinion from the
ethics and lobbying regulators at the Joint Commission on Public
Ethics found Lee
would not
have to reimburse the state for rides on state aircraft as long as it is being used for state business.
The report implies that an
ethics official who
had done business with my wife's company
had voted on the
opinion, which concluded that no conflict
would exist were she to enter into a contractual relationship with a third party that might coincidentally
have a contract with the county.
«I'm confident of the fact that we handled everything legally and ethically; that we did the things I wish more people
would do in public service, we sought guidance from an
ethics board,» de Blasio said at an unrelated Queens press conference, adding that he sought legal advice from lawyers and
opinions from the Conflicts of Interest Board.
On a conference call, Finnerty said, after Kelly first explained that Lisa Percoco was the wife of a Cuomo aide, he immediately said «there's nothing illegal about it» and «we
have an
ethics opinion; we
've had the lawyers look at it.»
The agreement also reverses a proposal from the
ethics and lobbying regulator known as JCOPE that
would require the disclosure by a consultant when they
have contacted an editorial board in an effort to influence an
opinion piece.
The consultant firm that
has been deeply critical of an advisory
opinion from the Joint Commission on Public
Ethics called on Monday for the resignation of the lobbying and
ethics watchdog's chairman.
In some instances
ethics boards
have had complaints or advisory
opinions to investigate, but there are no records on file of any business conducted.
After months of pressure from Percoco, the government says, and after Kelly falsely told other CPV executives that he
had obtained an «
ethics opinion» from the governor's office approving the arrangement, the company began to pay Percoco's wife $ 7,500 per month to teach fourth graders at elementary schools in New Jersey about a nearby power plant the company was developing.
Philosophy and
ethics have long been neglected in schools, and it's tremendously encouraging to know that the Welsh Government is of exactly the same
opinion.
Nassau's lame - duck Board of
Ethics has rebuffed District Attorney Madeline Singas» request for an
opinion on the legality of partisan governmental mailings even as the county attorney acknowledged this week that the board's current membership does not conform with Nassau's revised
ethics code.
The
ethics officials informed Woodstock Times that, pursuant to an
opinion from Robert Freeman, executive director of the state Committee on Open Government, the board
would vote to conduct the hearing in an executive session that
would be closed to the public, including the press.
As such, most devs paying attention haven't been voicing much — or any —
opinions on the game journalism
ethics issues that are supposedly threatening our industry.
But the veracity, integrity and
ethics challenged leaders of the west
have a different
opinion.
Although ordinary individuals may
have no duty to go beyond their own personal
opinion about the science of climate change, government officials who
have the power to enact policies that could present catastrophic harm to millions of people around the world may not as a matter of
ethics justify their refusal to support policies to reduce the threat of climate change on the basis of their uninformed
opinions on climate science.
We
have lost that spirit in my
opinion and I sincerely hope and pray that the work
ethic of America someday returns.
This is not the same thing holding an
opinion on the behaviour /
ethics / quality of peer review / etc, though of course I do
have a views on those issues, along with evidence to substantiate them.
A scant 15 states
have drafted formal
ethics opinions on cloud computing.
Many state bar associations
have issued
ethics opinions about lawyers using or recommending litigation financing companies.
In between the Model Rule comment on competence and the detailed
ethics opinions on cloud computing and metadata falls the idea that attorneys must possess general technological competence in order to meet their ethical obligations — not because the rules
have changed but because the world
has changed.
He said no, and that, if anything, the
opinions have brought about further progress, in that they
have been a catalyst for constructive conversations between Avvo and state
ethics bodies.
Many states
have also imposed rules requiring maintaining records for six years after representation ceases, or
have published
ethics opinions requiring retention and safekeeping.
(Edit: As some commenters
have mentioned, 18 states now
have ethics opinions on cloud computing.)
A few years ago, the ABA issued a formal
ethics opinion stating that if there is a significant risk that a third party might gain access to the email, attorneys
have to warn clients about that risk.
At least some of the
ethics opinions that
have so far addressed this issue indicate that part of the vetting process should include the provider's viability as a company.
Miami's Jacobowitz highlighted some of the legal
ethics obligations, noting that Pennsylvania Bar Association Formal
Opinion 201 - 300 provides that competence includes
having «a basic knowledge of how social media websites work.»
The ABA issued an
ethics opinion saying that if there was a significant risk a third party might gain access to your client's email communications, you
have a duty to warn your client about that risk.
California's Standing Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct (COPRAC)
has been working on an
ethics opinion on the applicability to attorney advertising rules to blogs for a while now, and after receiving public comments on its draft
opinion, it released a revised draft and opened up a new 90 - day public comment period.
Florida actually does
have an
ethic opinion on that which basically they kind of punt it a little bit and said, «You just
have to do due diligence,» so I'm using an appropriate pro type account for a business and so I definitely paid for my Dropbox storage and I
've made sure that I
have all the additional security features turned on.
At the same time, I find it ironic that while the ABA opposes mandatory retirement programs, it
has also issued an
ethics opinion holding that law firms can ethically make retirement benefits contingent on a lawyer's agreement to sign a non-compete clause (as a general rule, law firms can not bind lawyers to non-compete agreements because to do so
would violate the client's unfettered right to a lawyer of his or her choosing).
In California, that post
would violate the Rules of Professional Conduct, according to a recent
ethics opinion issued by the -LSB-...]
Some state bars, such as the North Carolina State Bar,
have specifically published
ethics opinions permitting virtual law practices and encouraging the practice of providing unbundled legal services online.
«With little fanfare, the ABA
has withdrawn a controversial 1992
ethics opinion requiring a lawyer who inadvertently receives privileged material from an opponent to refrain from reading the material, notify the sender of the error, and abide by the sender's instructions.
There was a difficult legal issue of retrospectivity and we
had been given only a 50/50
opinion of success when we started, so I constantly wondered about the
ethics of what the case was putting the women through and whether we should advise them to stop.
Unfortunately, with the ABA
having withdrawn a controversial 1992
ethics opinion addressing the question, the answer is anyone's guess, says Michael Yablonski in an article, New Rule, New Ballgame?
The Florida Bar Association
has recently published a professional
ethics opinion on the duty of lawyers to «sanitize», i.e. erase the memory of, storage media such as printers, copiers, scanners and fax machines.
To add to jimsung's detailed response, some U.S. state
ethics panels
have issued
opinions regarding the usage of the title «doctor.»
In Virginia, a draft
ethics opinion issued earlier this year concluded that a lawyer's participation in a Web site similar to Total Attorneys
would violate that state's
ethics rules.
But if a respected Miami lawyer can be indicted for writing a legal
opinion — which many Florida lawyers believe to
have been written in good faith — on a drug - money question, then surely government lawyers can and should
have to undergo, at minimum, an
ethics investigation for selling out themselves, the legal profession, and American politico - legal values in order to tell Bush and Cheney that they could torture prisoners to their hearts» content.