Sentences with phrase «firm ethics programs»

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LPCiminelli has also brought in retired FBI agent Paul Moskal to conduct a risk assessment of the firm and a compliance program to teach all employees about compliance with rules and ethics training.

During the past week, I've had the great honor and pleasure of presenting a four - hour program on legal ethics and technology to members of the Solo & Small Firm Section of the Florida Bar.

Attorney Levesque belongs to the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers and speaks on a regular basis on lawyer ethics and risk prevention at individual firms and at bar association programs.

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).

The program just launched and currently has five CLEs available, which focus on legal ethics along with tips on individual productivity and law firm efficiency.

[2] These programs attempt to achieve more consistent behavior across the firm by relying on specifically designated ethics experts who take the lead in establishing standard procedures that coordinate and reduce reliance on individual discretion.

ProEthics conducts entertaining CLE courses, as well as programs on business ethics and sexual harassment issues, for law firms, private companies, government agencies, and bar associations all over the United States.

Since 2000, Micah has presented the Pennsylvania Bar Association's annual marketing ethics program (as part of its three times per year «Ethics Potpourri» programming in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh), changing the focus each year to address ethics topics that have included an analysis of U.S. Supreme Court cases, advertising ethics opinions across the country, lawyer rankings and ratings, use of social media, blogs, traditional marketing approaches and missteps, internet marketing, solicitation, multi-jurisdictional practices, and state - by - state advertising requirements as they relate to everything from pre-approvals, language limitations, disciplinary actions, and the myriad of ways a law firm can (often unknowingly) violate the Rules of Professional Conduct.

Incorporating ethics into almost any CLE program increases value to the law firm.