Sentences with phrase «ethics opinions requiring»

Many states have also imposed rules requiring maintaining records for six years after representation ceases, or have published ethics opinions requiring retention and safekeeping.

«With little fanfare, the ABA has withdrawn a controversial 1992 ethics opinion requiring a lawyer who inadvertently receives privileged material from an opponent to refrain from reading the material,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.

Not exact matches

On ethics, Cuomo proposed requiring state lawmakers to seek an advisory opinion on any outside income and closing an election - law loophole that allows companies to skirt contribution maximums by forming an unlimited number of subsidiaries to channel donations.

Formal advisory opinions are required to be made public, though the 2011 law that created the ethics watchdog panel prevents it from releasing informal advisory opinions, which are issued by JCOPE's staff.

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 Comptroller's report included a lengthy chart showing the legislature's inaction on ethics reform, criticizing the fact that, among other things, the budget «intentionally omits» measures such as requiring advisory opinions on legislators» outside income, closing the LLC loophole in corporate political contributions, and extending the Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) to cover the Legislature.

Of course, when it comes to social media, Jacobowitz offered advice that doesn't require review of state bar ethics opinions.

At the time of this writing, there are no ethics opinions or rules and regulations requiring this step.

These Bar Associations depend on required fees to regulate the profession, to write ethics opinions, to investigate violations of the rules.

In the past, a few ethics ethics committees have reached this same conclusion, but some interpreted these opinions to require lawyers use more secure communication methods only in specific situations, such as within the context of employment litigation.

Formal Opinion 477, issued in May, requires lawyers to make a reasonable effort to secure client communication — or be in breach of legal ethics.

The ABA's recent ethics opinion is different, in that it requires lawyers to look beyond the type of data being sent and to also consider the client's situation when transmitting electronic data.

This year (2015), the Open Roboethics initiative conducted a survey to better understand public opinions on the question of the ethics and governance of autonomous weapons systems that makes the decision to use lethal force without requiring human intervention and systems in which a person in a remote location makes the decision.

As required by a Washington State ethics opinion, in such situations the parties must have counsel from whom to seek advice about the resolution.