Sentences with phrase «new ethics opinions»

As part of process of establish new ethics opinions and rules, ethics committees typically hold hearings or publish proposed opinions for comment, seeking input from practicing attorneys.

«Outsourcing can reduce client costs and enable small firms to provide labor intensive services such as large, discovery intense litigation, even though the firms might not maintain sufficient ongoing staff to handle the work, according to a new ethics opinion issued today.»

Now, a new ethics opinion by the New York City Bar Association's Committee on Professional Ethics («NYCBA») offers guidance on what lawyers should do after client files are inadvertently destroyed.

Now, a new ethics Opinion by the New York City Bar's Committee on Professional Ethics has held that New York attorneys may use the street address of a VLO as the «principal law office address» for the purposes of Rule 7.1 (h) of the New York Rules of Professional Conduct - even if most of the lawyer's work is done at another location.

Not exact matches

For example, it is the opinion of not a few biblical scholars that the love commandments in the Fourth Gospel and the epistles of John, so often quoted to stress the universality of the Christian ethic, were originally understood as applying only within the Christian community, and as in the Old Testament «Love your neighbor» meant «Love your fellow Israelite,» so the corresponding «new commandment» was taken to mean, «Love your fellow Christian.

After months of pressure from Percoco, the government says, and after Kelly falsely told other CPV executives that he had obtained an «ethics opinion» from the governor's office approving the arrangement, the company began to pay Percoco's wife $ 7,500 per month to teach fourth graders at elementary schools in New Jersey about a nearby power plant the company was developing.

After 1950 its effects were compounded by the shift public - opinion analyst Daniel Yankelovich details in New Rules from the ethic of self - denial to the ethic of self - fulfillment.

The New York Bar ethics opinion raised the issue of client confidentiality and letting a third party exercise control of a case.

California's Standing Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct (COPRAC) has been working on an ethics opinion on the applicability to attorney advertising rules to blogs for a while now, and after receiving public comments on its draft opinion, it released a revised draft and opened up a new 90 - day public comment period.

Unfortunately, with the ABA having withdrawn a controversial 1992 ethics opinion addressing the question, the answer is anyone's guess, says Michael Yablonski in an article, New Rule, New Ballgame?

In the course of updating an article I wrote last year about legal - ethics resources on the Web, I came across Ethics and Lawyering Today, a monthly electronic newsletter highlighting important new cases, ethics opinions, and other developments, often with links to full text documents.

A new ABA ethics opinion looks at how lawyers can advise their clients to speak directly to the opposing party in order to keep negotiations moving.

[4] For example, New York Bar Association Committee on Professional Ethics Opinion 842 «Using an outside online storage provider to store client confidential information» (September, 2010), consistent with the general requirements of the ethics opinions above, concludes:

New York lawyers may ethically contract with overseas nonlawyers to perform legal support services such as legal research, document review and drafting of pleadings or legal memoranda, according to a recent ethics opinion issued by the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.

Last month, the South Carolina Bar issued an advisory ethics opinion that, while it didn't name Avvo, squarely took aim at its new Avvo Legal Services, referring to «[a] n attorney directory website [that] released a new fixed - fee legal referral service.»

An April 2006 New Jersey ethics opinion takes a consistent approach in reviewing obligations in lawyers» use of electronic storage and access of client files.

I recently wrote about a new Washington State Bar ethics opinion at the Daily Record.

He is speaking of last week's ethics opinion, striking down a proposed employment agreement limiting the right of in - house lawyers at BASF Corp. to move to competitors, as reported today by the New Jersey Law Journal.

To read summaries of the New Hampshire opinion and other jurisdiction's ethics opinions on cloud computing and the use of legal management software in your law practice, check out the American Bar Association's useful comparative chart, which can be found here.

In addition to the recent ABA Ethics Opinion taking a generally pro-social-media tone, two new judicial ethics advisory opinions have been issued for federal and state judges.

But this new ABA ethics opinion makes clear that lawyers can never be complacent about security and technology.

Citing to prior New York State Bar ethics opinions, the Opinion applied the «facts, parties and time» test, which comes from Comment [2] to Rule 1.9.

This portion of the training will conclude with a brief talk about (a) some of the ethics opinions from the ABA and various states about Collaborative Practice, (b) some of the proposals for creating new ethics rules applicable to Collaborative Practice; and (c) whether in light of the Uniform Collaborative Law Act and the ABA ethics opinion approving the use of CP perhaps no new rules are needed.