Sentences with phrase «legal ethics problems»

Of course, this is only one of many legal ethics problems that might arise communicating via live web chat.

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«It's the funders that create the problem,» says Stephen Gillers, a New York University law professor who specializes in legal ethics.

I have flagged up the problem of consent as the foundation of sexual ethics before, but it seems that legal thinking on marriage has thus far proceeded without having to acknowledge the manifold difficulties inherent in the concept.

Ryan is going back to an Assembly in turmoil with Speaker Sheldon Silver facing legal and political problems and a major ethics probe of the way the place runs.

Ellen Yaroshefsky, professor of legal ethics at Hofstra University's Maurice A. Deane School of Law, said: «If the cooperator is the only evidence, then that's a problem.»

Another problem is that in its July 2009 Guidelines on Human Stem Cell Research, NIH spelled out specific requirements about embryo donation for newly derived lines, says Pilar Ossorio, a legal scholar who studies research ethics at the University of Wisconsin Law School.

Rather than a problem, the slow pace of development is usually good for both law and our legal ethics rules.

The problem, however, as Anne Vespry cogently argued on our legal ethics listserv (and «Bob Smith» also noted in comments on Omar Ha - Redeye's SLAW column), is that it is not clear that there is a legal basis for claiming that Ontario lawyers have a duty to promote equality, diversity and inclusion understood as a requirement to take active steps toward making the profession more equal, diverse and inclusive.

The more legal professionals are aware of the rules, the better they are able to avoid ethics problems.

I might suggest that while I am, at my core, conservative, my sense is that as we've seen in the U.S. and international banking industry, expanded corporatization has its problems — and one might, fairly, question whether issues of legal ethics will also diminish as lawyers increasingly see themselves as little more than «commodity brokers» as opposed to what has been, at least in theory, a profession which sees itself as more than simply factory workers doing a job... and in fact which many of us still feel is both a great honor and a great social responsibility.

To me, it's the legal ethics paranoia to the point of paralysis that's becoming more and more of a problem.

Here is an overview of some of the problems members of the California Bar face in an out - of - whack legal ethics system.

Notably, Parloff writes, several legal - ethics experts initially saw no problem with the site, «since none realized that the site was run by a law firm until I told them.»

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For instance, one might expect comments: 1) identifying ethical problems in legal scholarship that are given too little attention; 2) identifying the most important or urgent ethical problems in legal scholarship, even if they are already given attention; 3) asking questions about the definition of «scholarship» or «legal scholarship,» what counts as legal scholarship, and what kinds of norms, if any, should apply to writing by law professors as law professors but outside scholarly forums, such as tweets, blog posts, «law professors» letters,» op - eds, and so on; 4) proposing specific ethical norms for legal scholarship, especially those that might, as it were, be part of a Restatement or code of the ethics of legal scholarship; and 5) raising general questions, positive or critical, about what the conference should try to achieve or whether it is possible to achieve anything at all.

Practical skills training focuses on general legal skills, including problem - solving, communication and presentation, contract interpretation, writing and editing, and ethics and professionalism.

Professional ethics usually introduces higher standards of professional practice than the law itself; my usual advice to clients is that the law is the minimum standard and in order to completely secure themselves from any potential legal problems they should also follow the professional ethics.

There are obviously good (ethics related) reasons why legal professionals may be reluctant to collaborate (as I have just defined it) online, but it's hard to fathom that there is absolutely no reasonable and prudent model that would allow us to tap into the more collaborative nature of the web to solve legal problems and, while doing so, meet unmet legal needs.

Since I've designated today as a day to think about ethics, it's worth quoting from a recent US judgment on a issue that had and has both legal and moral implications that comes from the boomer days — the Viet Nam war and the consequences of the use of Agent Orange — and comparing that to how the Canadian government handled the problem that produced Authorson v Canada.

Since I've designated today as a day to think about ethics, it's worth quoting from a recent US judgment on a issue that had and has both legal and moral implications that comes from the boomer days — the Viet Nam war and the consequences of the use of Agent Orange — and comparing that to how the Canadian government handled the problem that produced Authorson v Canada... [more]

You'd be much better off with an office of five big producers than with 25 — 30 salespeople who take sales away from the top performers and cause most of the legal and ethics problems that brokers have.»