Sentences with phrase «formal opinion»

In August 2011, the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility issued Formal Opinion 11 - 459 relating to a lawyer's duty to protect the confidentiality of electronic communications with clients.

(You can see the list of states that have offered formal opinions on the American Bar Association's website.)

Also, your ethical rules and opinions (e.g. ABA Formal Opinion No. 99 - 414) may give direct guidance as to what steps must be taken.

For example, in Formal Opinion No. 11 - 459, issued by the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility in 2011, the Committee reached the narrow conclusion that, in employment cases, lawyers have an obligation to warn clients of the risk of discussing the case using employer - owned devices or accounts.

Opinions range from formal opinions of counsel which clients have successfully relied on at trial, to less formal letter opinions, all of which provide strategic advice to assist our clients in making critical business decisions.

According to The State Bar of California Standing Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct Formal Opinion NO. 2012 - 186, posts by attorneys on social media websites are subject to professional responsibility rules governing attorney advertising if they constitute a «communication» within the meaning of rules.

the giving of a professional or formal opinion regarding the substance or procedure of the law in relation to a particular factual situation.

First, on August 5, 2010, the ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility released Formal Opinion 10 - 457 on Lawyer Websites.

Last May, the Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility built on existing guidance concerning confidentiality with Formal Opinion 477R.

ORANGE COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION Formal Opinion 2014 - 1 (Ghostwriting by Contract Lawyers and Out - of - State Lawyers) Issue: What ethical issues are raised when (1) a lawyer licensed to practice law only outside

This Joint Formal Opinion analyzes these ethical concerns in representing clients in limited scope engagements in light of the applicable Pennsylvania Rules of Professional Conduct (the Rules).

In 2015, the IDA was informed by the New York State Authority Budget Office of the State Comptroller's Formal Opinion No.2014 - F1 which stated that Industrial Development Agency's did not have the legal authority to create subsidiaries for purposes outside of those specifically authorized in their enabling legislation and that IDA's are not authorized,» to make grants or loans of its money to any type of entity.»

The Attorney General's office sends Formal Opinion # 2008 - 1 to Secretary of State on 6/20/08 in support of Governor's action.

Luckily — from the perspective of people who like a bit of convenience, even if they're not terribly concerned about data privacy — a string of legal ethical opinions, including Formal Opinion No. 99 - 413 of the American Bar Association and the Law Society of BC's April 1998 opinion on the transmission of confidential information over the internet, seemed to offer near - absolution to lawyers from concern over unencrypted email.

However, the ABA's 2007 formal opinion rejected this notion that failure to disclose the legal assistance provided would mislead the court.

State Bar of California Formal Opinion 2016 - 196 treats a blog as advertising that's subject to advertising rules if the attorney makes known their availability for service.

In fact, in the aforementioned Formal Opinion, the ABA went on to state that «pressure on lawyers to bill a minimum number of hours and on law firms to maintain or improve profits may have led some lawyers to engage in problematic billing practices.»

The American Bar Association recently published Formal Opinion 476, entitled «Confidentiality Issues when Moving to Withdraw for Nonpayment of Fees in Civil Litigation.»

Now, that opinion has been finalized and was issued on June 30 as Formal Opinion No. 2015 - 193.

In Revised Formal Opinion 31 (1988), the CBA's Committee on Professional Ethics addressed the limits on a Connecticut law firm's common law right to a «retaining» lien — to secure fees — on the file of a contingency fee client who has discharged the firm in favor of another firm.

For example, California's Formal Opinion on attorney technical competence specifically articulates that attorneys (or attorneys working with the assistance of qualified experts) need to be able to:

Ultimately, even if a pronouncement like ABA Formal Opinion 477 is more sound than fury, it will hopefully serve as a jolt to those solo and small firm attorneys who don't care a fig for data security, and provide them incentive to step up their respective games.

New York County Lawyers Association Formal Opinion 748 (2015) requires disclaimers in LinkedIn profiles.

State Bar of Arizona, Opinion No. 09 - 04, «Confidentiality; Maintaining Client Files; Electronic Storage; Internet» (Formal Opinion of the Committee on the Rules of Professional Conduct)(December 2009).

The Pennsylvania Bar Association's Committee On Legal Ethics And Professional Responsibility has just released Formal Opinion 2011 - 200, Ethical Obligations For Attorneys Using Cloud Computing / Software As A Service While Fulfilling The Duties Of Confidentiality And Preservation Of Client Property

In the Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct Formal Opinion No. 2015 - 193, California makes it abundantly clear that a lawyer who does not understand how electronically stored information is managed and retrieved for litigation purposes needs to get assistance before embarking on discovery in just about any matter.

ORANGE COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION Formal Opinion 2011 - 01 (Collaborative Family Law) Issue: Can a family lawyer enter into a collaborative law agreement consistent with her ethical duties, notwithstanding the

PENNSYLVANIA BAR ASSOCIATION LEGAL ETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY COMMITTEE Summary PHILADELPHIA BAR ASSOCIATION PROFESSIONAL GUIDANCE COMMITTEE JOINT FORMAL OPINION 2015 - 100 PROVIDING ADVICE TO

(See, ABA Formal Opinion No. 99 - 413).

References — essentially a request for a court's formal opinion on a legal matter — are rare.

Let that errand boy do some work and give Paterson a Formal Opinion on NY PML Sec 105.

Paterson is the Governor and even the NY Racing and Board would be wise to use some common sense and ask the Attorney General for a Formal Opinion, see above, on NY PML Sec 105.

Sen. Brad Hoylman of Manhattan has asked the state Committee on Open Government for a formal opinion on the Senate's adoption this week of chamber rules that bar the use of cellphones as recording devices — a prohibition that Hoylman strongly suspects is a violation of state Open Meetings Law.

Competitive bidding requirements on a joint county - municipal highway project should not be enforced in a county with a county executive, according to a formal opinion issued by Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen on Wednesday.

A formal opinion from state Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen has done little to remedy ongoing tensions between the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors and County Executive Chris Abele.

«I believe that it is important that the Treasury and the IRS issue guidance or a formal opinion letter whether taxpayer contributions to state authorized trust funds, partially reimbursed by credits reducing state and local income taxes, will be considered deductible for federal tax purposes,» Faso wrote in the letter.

This will allow them now to have a formal opinion.

This week lawyers concluded that in their formal opinion there was a «prima facie» case that Vote Leave had colluded with BeLeave in order to get round spending limits.

Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, who attended Friday's rally with his toddler son, has offered general support but no formal opinion.

The New York Public Interest Research Group in November sent a letter asking for a formal opinion from the Joint Commission on Public Ethics as to whether political parties should be considered lobbyists under state law.

«Nobody's asked for a formal opinion on that,» he said.

There were also deals, or near deals, to bar campaign donations from those seeking state contracts, create a public campaign financing system for state Supreme Court judicial candidates, and require state lawmakers to seek a formal opinion on whether their outside income represents conflicts of interest.

The town's outside auditor, Drescher and Malecki, was so distressed by the state of the town's financial statements in 2014 and 2015 that it refused to offer a formal opinion for either year and threatened to quit, Hosler said.