Sentences with phrase «of ethics counsel»

That requires law firms to take certain structural steps in organizing the position of ethics counsel.

These include segregation of ethics counsel within the firm and unique compensation arrangements.

However, the law is more likely to evolve in that direction if law societies provide some specific guidance, in the rules of professional conduct, for the role of ethics counsel.

Not exact matches

He previously was a partner at the law firm of O'Melveny & Myers, a deputy general counsel at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Department, and senior counsel at the Justice Department.John Roth joined the firm as chief compliance and ethics officer, with responsibility for ensuring that the company remains in compliance with the evolving legal landscape.

I see ethics, spirituality, catechetics, preaching, and all pastoral counsel as needing to be informed and regulated by theological interpretation of Scripture, and I do not expect to see any good practical Christianity where this discipline is neglected.

The mainline churches, with their more abstract theologies and ethics and their more complex concepts of personal counseling could not conceive of the conduct of personal relationships via a computer.

This did not give the Church an «interim ethic» for the relatively short remaining time in the sense made famous by Schweitzer in The Quest of the Historical Jesus, though it did lead to counsels of celibacy by Paul, and still more to injunctions to readiness in view of the sudden, unknown hour of the coming of the day of the Lord (I Thess.

The sexual ethics of my childhood and adolescence repeatedly counseled that I love and accept my body; that I understand that my soul becomes sick when my pleasure is not nourished.

Confidentiality, then, became a matter of professional (counseling) ethics — with one difference.

For example, a curriculum that seems to privilege courses having to do with religious experience, worship, spirituality, counseling, and the like over, say, systematic and philosophical theology may reveal a commitment to the assumption that God is understood effectively rather than discursively; while a curriculum relatively more rich in offerings in ethics, sociology of religion, liberation theology, and the like than in offerings in historical theology, patristics, liturgics, and mystical traditions may reveal a commitment to the view that God is better understood in action than in contemplation.

The concern for theology, not as a particularist discipline but as the search for human wisdom about the wisdom of God in the creation and redemption of man, is manifest in other disciplines besides Biblical studies: in systematic theology frequently, occasionally in Christian ethics, homiletics, religious education and pastoral counseling.

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.

Also at 11 a.m., the City of Mount Vernon Department of Law Corporation Counsel Lawrence R. Porcari will hold a press conference to announce new anti-corruption and public ethics measures, which include full funding of an independent Inspector General as required by Mount Vernon charter, City Hall, 1 Roosevelt Square, Mount Vernon.

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.

They included Rich Bamberger, Cuomo's communications director for his first two years in office; Stephanie Benton, Cuomo's personal assistant; Jeremy Creelan of Cuomo's counsel's office, a specialist on public ethics policy; SUNY Poly spokesman David Doyle, and many more.

It should be noted that Silver reportedly is ready to get all the way on board with the governor's ethics reform proposal — even the part that would require him to fully disclose his client list at Weitz & Luxenberg, which is something that Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who is also of counsel (at the Long Island firm of Ruskin Moscou Faltischek), doesn't seem all that interested in doing.

Gagan would not, however, be the panel's first special counsel: Rob Cohen served in that capacity in addition to his title of director of ethics and lobbying guidance.

A former North Carolina Supreme Court judge has filed complaints with the U.S. Office of Special Counsel and a New York state ethics panel alleging that taxpayer - funded ads Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration has run in North Carolina violated the Hatch Act by interfering with the gubernatorial and legislative races...

The ethics bill specifically authorizes the board to retain private counsel in situations where there is a conflict of interest.

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.»

Cuomo also hired Carolyn Pokorny, formerly of the U.S. attorney general's office, to be chief special counsel for ethics.

Ten months after departing JCOPE, Letizia Tagliafierro has a new job working for Gov. Andrew Cuomo: The former executive director of the ethics watchdog panel will serve as the governor's special counsel for public safety.

The Suffolk Board of Ethics did not investigate County Executive Steve Bellone's letter raising a conflict of interest complaint against a district attorney bureau chief because the allegations occurred before the ethics board was created in 2012, the board's counsel said.

Keith St. John, a former counsel for the Senate Democrats and ex-Albany Common Council member, has joined JCOPE as director of ethics.

President Trump's official counselor, Kellyanne Conway, was «counseled» after she told TV audiences to «go buy Ivanka's stuff» — an apparent violation of federal ethics laws.

Records on the state ethics commission website show that Whiteman Osterman & Hanna signed a contract in March 2016 to provide «legislative and regulatory counsel» while lobbying the governor's office, state agencies and the Legislature on issues of real estate development, construction, property management and other matters.

ALBANY — A lawyer whose national and state investigative experience included roles in probes of the Enron and WorldCom securities scandals was one of the finalists to become executive director of the state's ethics board before it chose a former counsel to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, according to a source and the former job candidate.

While Silver, of counsel to the personal - injury law firm Weitz & Luxenberg, has repeatedly insisted he's reached an ethics deal with Cuomo, the governor has refused to confirm the claim.

Russ Haven, the group's legislative counsel, said it disagreed with the commission's interpretation of the ethics laws and would ask the commission to reconsider its finding.

* The lead counsel for the House ethics committee is recommending a penalty of censure for Rep. Charles Rangel (D - N.Y.), who was convicted this week of breaking 11 congressional rules.

One of the report's proposed orders would require certain members of the governor's executive staff, including his chief counsel, to put their full ethics disclosure forms online, including information about their investments.

She named health care benefits, career counseling, and ethics workshops as just some of the needy areas.

Our students learn through a combination of sequenced coursework, pertaining to the treatment of children, adolescents, and young adults in areas such as counseling theories and techniques, cross-cultural perspectives, lifespan development, psychopathology, psychological testing, research, positive psychology, and ethics, as well as through ample and diverse hands - on experiences in the field.

The Dean has 21 years of experience with consulting on issues such as public school strategic planning for diversity, rehabilitation counseling, and multicultural diversity with the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, and the Food and Drug Administration's Center for Devices and Radiological Health; and on issues of ethics and consumer protection with the Alabama Board of Examiners in Ccounseling, and multicultural diversity with the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, and the Food and Drug Administration's Center for Devices and Radiological Health; and on issues of ethics and consumer protection with the Alabama Board of Examiners in CounselingCounseling.

Moore is a career attorney in the U.S. Department of Transportation's Office of General Counsel where she has focused on procurement and ethics issues.

«There are many recent cases where lawyers have found themselves in trouble because of their use of client confidential information in settings that might surprise people,» says Mary K. Foster, counsel to the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission (ARDC) review board and lecturer on legal ethics at Northwestern University School of Law.

In preparing the list, Ethisphere asked executives, general counsel and compliance officers at some of the selected companies to comment on how they promote ethics within their organizations.

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.

Whatever the ethics of counsel's conduct, however, Boyle's decision to engage with the merits of the case in a recusal decision raises its own ethical problems.

I am building systems where I can give people the tools they need when they're starting their practice to make sure they're giving themselves the best footing possible to avoid being in ethics trouble and building tools for the lawyers who receive letters of investigation and need to respond properly but maybe can't afford counsel to do it for them.

This week, the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism launched a first - of - its - kind interactive online course for in - house counsel covering issues of ethics and professionalism.

At Holland & Knight, Trisha advises lawyers, law firms, and in - house legal counsel on a wide variety of legal ethics and professional responsibility issues, including matters pertaining to confidentiality, conflicts, privilege, fee disputes, lawyer mobility issues, and others.

Trust Account School, Ethics School, and Practice and Financial Monitor School The Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel offers trust account school and ethics school.

However, in one state, Connecticut, the chief disciplinary counsel found cause to file charges against five attorneys, alleging that they were obtaining referrals through and sharing fees with Total Attorneys in violation of legal ethics rules.

In this week's edition of the legal - affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we discuss the ethics of cloud computing with two guests: Alice N. Mine, senior ethics counsel and assistant executive director of the North Carolina -LSB-...]

This seems rather far afield for an ethics opinion, particularly as that bcc is often a convenient way to keep your client apprised of what you are doing (and a regular cc gives your client's email address to opposing counsel, which you also do not want.)

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.

Virginia legal ethics expert Jim McCauley, who is ethics counsel for the Virginia State Bar, told The Daily Press that the investigation could result in a letter telling Poulson to discontinue the practice of law.

In past posts here, I've written about its list of the 100 most influential people in business ethics, among whom were 19 lawyers, and its list of the world's most ethical companies, which highlighted the roles played by key in - house counsel.

I know that one of the same insurance provider that I had covered the first $ 500 or $ 1000 of attorney's fees to consult with an ethics counsel in light of a claim that you were worried about.