Sentences with phrase «for ethics regulators»

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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.

A group that pushed for the education investment tax credit spent more than $ 5 million on the effort, according to a report from lobbying and ethics regulators released on Thursday.

Cuomo sought and received approval for the income from ethics regulators.

The state GOP last week filed a complaint with ethics regulators over Percoco's appearances in the governor's office in 2014 when he was in charge of Cuomo's re-election campaign and not working for the state.

Catsimatidis in the radio interview with Talk 1300's Fred Dicker said he had not spoken to Cuomo about the bill and that it was his idea to contact ethics regulators at the Joint Commission on Public Ethics to receive approval for the trip.

The Legislature in 2011 adopted an ethics overhaul measure that required greater disclosure of sources of outside income for state elected officials, as well as the creation of the latest lobbying regulator, the Joint Commission on Public Ethics.

A law approved in 2011 aimed at requiring more disclosure for state officials who earn outside income from lobbying entities to appears to be rarely enforced by state ethics regulators.

Ride - hailing firm Uber Technologies was the top lobbying spender for the first half of 2017, a report released Wednesday by the ethics and lobbying regulators at the Joint Commission on Public Ethics found.

Legislation: The appellant is a regulator in Quebec that was pursuing an ethics inquiry against a claims adjuster working for the respondent.

For both application of existing rules and the promulgation of new ones, state regulators are being guided somewhat by national bodies — mainly the American Bar Association — but as the world of legal ethics evolves along with technology, there remains a need to consult local authorities on all ethics rules.

However, ethics regulators are doing more — much more — than punishing lawyers for behavior brought on by their disabilities.

There are lots of potential issues any ethics regulator might point to for why disclaimers should not be upheld.

The employment mandates of the ADA are directed to employers with 15 or more employees, so a disabled lawyer working in a firm or a company is protected from discrimination for his disability by the employer, but he is not employed by the ethics regulators.

To respondents in ethics investigations, it seems that regulators view billing for our time to make a living practicing our profession as disdainful conduct.

It stands to reason that the ADA comes up when lawyers with disabilities face charges from ethics regulators for allegedly failing to meet their duties as attorneys.

For years, selling a law practice was prohibited because ethics regulators believed clients, files, and a firm's good will were not something that could be sold.

So can a lawyer with a disability invoke the ADA when ethics regulators impose discipline for behavior that stems directly from the disability?

I worked for a mandatory bar (a.k.a. regulator) and the question came up about the ethics of the billable hour.

However, as we previously wrote in an article for the New York Legal Ethics Reporter, these attempts have been met with significant resistance by bar regulators and ethics committees largely owing to the current state of the law and ethics rules.

It seems an appropriate time for those lawyers, ethics committees, bar associations and legal regulators who have an interest in how the cloud will serve the public interest as well as the needs of lawyers, clients and cloud developers to get involved and start looking at clouds from both sides now, both up and down, as it seems that, at this early point in its development, we really don't know the ethics of clouds at all...

The hope of those lobbying for statutes is to finesse these other issues, rarely discussed, with a statute blessing collaborative law, however practiced (mostly unseen by judges or regulators or members of the public, in the shadow of their private «containers»), and thus create a done deal before the multitude of other ethics problems come to light.

Proprietary vs. provincial codes of ethics Prior to insisting on a mandatory ethics course for all licensees, a province's self - regulator ought to first have fully articulated a distinct provincial code of ethics.

It could be legally problematic for a Canadian regulator to compel a licensee to adhere to a professional code of ethics owned and promoted by a trade association, but I understand the sentiments and frustrations of real estate professionals.

Ontario's Tom Wright, who is retiring as president / CEO after 17 years at RECO, told REM last month that some measures that regulators provide, such as a code of ethics for the profession, mandatory errors and omissions insurance and consumer deposit protection «provides the ability for consumers to feel they can work with a real estate professional and do so with confidence.