Sentences with phrase «from ethics regulators»

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.

«It stands to reason that the ADA comes up when lawyers with disabilities face charges from ethics regulators... ``

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

Not exact matches

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.

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.

Though Albany is reeling from yet another corruption scandal, the ethics and lobbying regulators at the Joint Commission on Public Ethics didn't discuss the case at their meeting.

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.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo received the OK from the top lobbying and ethics regulators at the Joint Commission on Public Ethics to take a billionaire donor's plane to the Virgin Islands to survey hurricane damage.

If an attorney is able to meet his demands of practice despite his disability by making reasonable accommodations in his employment, then he will be protected by the ADA from discrimination in employment situations and can continue his craft; but if the disability causes harm to clients and the public, ethics regulators are not bound to allow that harm to continue simply because the attorney suffers from a disability.

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.

«[I] f the disability causes harm to clients and the public, ethics regulators are not bound to allow that harm to continue simply because the attorney suffers from a disability.»

Without there being a real litigation test of a disclaimer, we don't have a clear answer, but we must begin to wonder whether any ethics regulator can overlook the fact that the language intended to safeguard the lawyer from ethics charges goes completely unnoticed by the consumer.

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

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...