Sentences with phrase «from ethics counsel»

To avoid having the privilege defeated, the advice from ethics counsel must be sought by the firm as client rather than as agent for the firm's client.

Not exact matches

The issue first came to light in a leaked memorandum from the independent enforcement counsel at the state Board of Elections, Risa Sugarman, a position formed in 2014 following an ethics agreement in the budget and the shuttering of the Moreland Commission, a panel formed to investigate corruption in the Legislature.

Paul Sabatino, a former counsel to the Suffolk Legislature and chief deputy county executive who helped craft Suffolk's ethics code, said if Prudenti took money from defense attorneys for use of the Christina Marie, it was improper.

JCOPE spokesman Walter McClure said it was «routine for JCOPE staff and the executive director to speak with executive and legislative officials, ethics officers and counsels and others from state agencies, and lobbyists and their clients as part of the commission's mandate to provide ethics guidance.»

UPDATE: The governor's press office emailed the following statement from Jeremy Creelan, special counsel to the governor and senior adviser on ethics:

In another instance of attorney behavior run amok, we have a significant ethics violation from an attorney who photographed his opposing counsel's private documents in court.

Mizeur says she did nothing wrong and that she received clearance from the state legislature's ethics counsel to sponsor and vote on the legislation.

The incident has attracted plenty of discussion in the blogosphere on issues like the legal ethics of pretexting (from Legal Ethics Forum); whether HP General Counsel Ann Baskins knew investigators were using pretexting and if she showed poor judgment in approving these measures (from WSJ Law Blog; see also the ensuing comments), whether pretexting «is the HP Way and how outside counsel Larry Sonsini could have claimed that the investigation was lawful when it violated staCounsel Ann Baskins knew investigators were using pretexting and if she showed poor judgment in approving these measures (from WSJ Law Blog; see also the ensuing comments), whether pretexting «is the HP Way and how outside counsel Larry Sonsini could have claimed that the investigation was lawful when it violated stacounsel Larry Sonsini could have claimed that the investigation was lawful when it violated state law.

As for the lawyer who receives a document from opposing counsel, ethics committees have taken opposite positions on what a lawyer should do.

A graduate from Chicago - Kent College of Law, Ms. Genesen launched her career at the California State Bar, where, for four years, she oversaw high - profile attorney ethics and discipline cases as the lead legal and policy advisor to the Chief Trial Counsel.

For more than a decade, law firms throughout the country — from small plaintiffs» firms to AMLAW 100 law firms have sought Micah's counsel on issues relating to ethics compliance in law firm marketing and advertising.

The ethics of my profession prohibit me from giving direct guidance in this medium, because we are not in a professional relationship and, thus, I don't know you well enough to give you sound counsel.

The intensive, comprehensive program provides individual therapy, family counseling, drug and alcohol education, moral development, anger management, self - esteem development, as well as a focus on ethics and values, relationship issues, women's health issues and recovery from / prevention of sexual exploitation.

(a) a qualified member of another profession, such as a physician, lawyer, pastoral counselor, probation officer, court employee, nurse, school counselor, educator, chemical dependency counselor accredited by a federal agency, or addiction counselor licensed pursuant to Title 37, chapter 35, from performing duties and services consistent with the person's licensure or certification and the code of ethics of the person's profession or, in the case of a qualified member of another profession who is not licensed or certified or for whom there is no applicable code of ethics, from performing duties and services consistent with the person's training, as long as the person does not represent by title that the person is engaging in the practice of professional counseling;

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

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