Sentences with phrase «on ethical obligations»

As an ethics scholar in rehabilitation counseling, much of his scholarship on ethics has targeted distributive justice issues and therefore his scholarship on ethical obligations has focused on the importance of promoting resilience and of advocating against ableism or the preference for able - bodiedness.

In line with a growing trend reflected in decisions from state supreme courts (those in Georgia, Massachusetts and Oregon), as well as from several federal trial courts, the New York intermediate appeals court recognized that «attorneys who have sought the advice of their law firm's in - house general counsel on their ethical obligations in representing a firm client may [properly] invoke [the] attorney - client privilege to resist the client's demand for the disclosure of communications seeking or giving such advice.»

Represented a number of regional law firms in malpractice actions and counseled law firms on ethical obligations in pending litigation matters.

While a significant part of his practice is dedicated to defending lawyers, financial advisors and insurance producers against malpractice claims, he also devotes considerable time advising lawyers and law firms on their ethical obligations and risk management tools, acting as outside general counsel to several of Chicago's many condominium associations, and representing the interests of family members and shareholders in disputes that arise within closely - held corporations.

Dan Meyer spends his professional life in the areas of business disputes, representing professionals on their ethical obligations and in malpractice claims, and providing advice and counseling to condominium and homeowners» associations.

While a significant part of his practice is dedicated to defending lawyers, financial advisors and insurance producers against malpractice claims, he also devotes considerable time advising lawyers and law firms on their ethical obligations and risk management tools, acting as outside general counsel to several of Chicago's many condominium associations, and representing the interests of family members and shareholders in disputes that arise within closely - held corporations... read full bio.

It is difficult to put forth a «sample» document destruction policy applicable nationwide due to the immense variation in state rules on ethical obligations for file retention, though the basics of one are included below.

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He said he has an «ethical obligation» to focus for the next five years on his newly announced De Soto joint venture for a blockchain - based global property registry.

Her position emerged out of the dialogue with Lawrence Kohlberg, whose research and theory on the development of moral reasoning builds toward post-conventional stages grounded in the Kantian ethical tradition of rights, duties, and obligations.

Let me give you a hint — before you, and this mass hysteria of a mob, begin throwing the first stones of «unfulfilled ethical obligations» please read and meditate on it.

Because animals can suffer, we have ethical obligations not to inflict upon them more pain, relative to their capacities for sentience, than we would inflict on creatures of our own kind, relative to our capacities.

There were three main limitations on early Hebrew morals: the field of ethical obligation was tribally constricted; within the tribal circle certain classes were denied full personal rights; and the nature of moral conduct was interpreted in such external terms of custom and ritual as to make small demand on internal insight and quality.

Pig farmers claim they are losing more than # 20 on each pig raised to slaughter, blamed on the soaring price of feed and the cost of meeting ethical obligations.

I consider it my professional, ethical obligation to stay focused on doing creative and interesting science so that I can pass on to my students a knowledge of what science really is and what it means to practice it.

Varmus, who was a co-recipient of the 1989 Nobel Prize for his work on the genetic basis of cancer, addressed questions on a range of topics in genetics, including the ethical obligations of scientists and proper use of patents.

But James identifies what she calls a «mentorship gap,» arguing that adult conversations with young people about online behavior focus almost solely on issues of personal security, not on moral or ethical obligations.

The work on the program is driven by the desire to have a more deliberate and detailed focus on practice, as well as on content knowledge for teaching and the ethical obligations of the profession.

the head of H$ U$, Wayne Pacelle, is on record - «We have no ethical obligation to preserve the different breeds of livestock produced through selective breeding.

Rest assured, when I comment on a picture like this, it is only because my job carries with it an ethical obligation to help dogs and people understand each other better, to coexist together more joyfully and safely.

This course dovetails nicely with Jim Barry's discussion on ethical issues — what obligations do we have, as professionals, to give back to our community.

If records were available on national compliance with ethical obligations for climate change, they could be used both by the international community to pressure nations to improve performance on their climate change ethical obligations and also create a factual basis that could be used by citizens within the nation to ensure that the national climate change policies consider ethical obligations in setting their emissions targets.

Yet, many nations continue to make national commitments under the UNFCCC as if national economic self - interest rather than ethical obligations is an adequate basis for determining national policies on climate change.

In the absence of a court adjudicating what equity requires of nations in setting their national climate change commitments, a possibility but far from a guarantee under existing international and national law (for an explanation of some of the litigation issues, Buiti, 2011), the best hope for encouraging nations to improve the ambition of their national emissions reductions commitments on the basis of equity and justice is the creation of a mechanism under the UNFCCC that requires nations to explain their how they quantitatively took equity into account in establishing their INDCs and why their INDC is consistent with the nation's ethical obligations to people who are most vulnerable to climate change and the above principles of international law.

If you grant that the rich have ethical obligations to the poor (and living people to future people yet to be born), why is it more ethical to invest $ 3Trillion (a figure sometimes bandied about) on mitigation instead of adaptation.

If parties recognized and acted on their ethical duties, obligations, and responsibilities when negotiating the Copenhagen text certain issues still under negotiation could be more easily resolved.

Nations continue to set ghg emissions reductions targets at levels based upon their self - interest despite the fact that any national target must be understood to be implicitly a position on two issues that can not be thought about clearly without considering ethical obligations.

This video explains why US domestic law on climate change must be consistent with existing provisions of international law and US ethical obligations,

What distinguishes ethical issues from economic and scientific arguments about climate change is that ethics is about duties, obligations, and responsibilities to others while economic and scientific arguments are usually understood to be about «value - neutral» «facts» which once established have usually been deployed in arguments against action on climate change based upon self - interest.

Although the leadership in the United States and other nations that are failing to make commitments congruent with their ethical obligations will no doubt claim that their position in the international climate negotiations is limited by what is politically feasible in their countries, the world needs national leaders who are prepared to urge their nations to make commitments congruent with their ethical obligations, not on national self - interest alone.

Although groups and individuals have respectable ethical arguments to make that they are complying with their ethical duties if they are meeting nationally imposed obligations, ethical arguments remain that they should do more if: (a) the national target does not move as quickly as possible to reduce the nation's emissions to its fair share of safe global emissions, or (b) the group or individual could do more to reduce GHG emissions without imposing great hardship on themselves because they are wasting GHG emitting energy on unnecessary activities.

Even if switching to natural gas in the short term reduces the US carbon footprint somewhat, it is still not sufficient by itself to put the US on an emissions reduction pathway consistent with its ethical obligations without other policy interventions including putting a price on carbon or rapid ramp up of renewable energy.

Why nations have a strong ethical duty to be clearly transparent on how they satisfied their ethical obligations to reduce its ghg emissions to the nation's fair share of safe global emissions.

In between the Model Rule comment on competence and the detailed ethics opinions on cloud computing and metadata falls the idea that attorneys must possess general technological competence in order to meet their ethical obligations — not because the rules have changed but because the world has changed.

Like you, I believe that there are strategies the LSUC could pursue which would achieve their substantive goals, strategies which accurately reflect existing (and unambiguous) legal and ethical obligations and which are consistent with constitutional requirements and principles (as I've noted above, if the current requirement around a Statement of Principle merely required acknowledgement of our actual existing obligations under the Rules, rather than a general duty to promote equality, diversity and inclusion which is found nowhere in the Rules, I suspect much opposition would melt away and the LSUC would be on far stronger Charter grounds).

It is hoped that by engaging with law firms at their inception, and then on a triennial basis through the self - assessment process, the NSBS can provide firms support and guidance in fulfilling their ethical and regulatory obligations — and help them avoid the many quality of client service concerns that adequate management systems are proven to mitigate.

Anna advised a US attorney working for a global firm on their resignation to join a US firm and the interplay between their extensive English partnership obligations and foreign bar ethical obligations.

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Time and again, lawyers with good intentions set out to learn more about their ethical obligations on one technology or another.

Keep in mind that the agreement between the lawyer and the firm can not contradict either party's ethical obligations, but it may well create obligations beyond those imposed by the ethical rules, and it may also dictate who takes on certain ethical obligations discussed below.

Goldstein said that while he doesn't feel it is currently an ethical obligation, it is a matter of professional responsibility: «The service I provide to clients is based on presenting the latest, most efficient and cost - effective options that allow me to maximize my experience and knowledge as a lawyer with individual clients.»

Lawyers have an ethical obligation to safeguard client confidences, yet most are falling short when it comes to protecting clients» privileged information in a this on - the - go age.

Nor is it fair, I think, to say that the defending narrative discourages discussions as to the legal and ethical constraints on how a lawyer can advance her client's interest in a sexual assault trial — after all, the tension between advance your clients interests and your ethical and legal obligations is always a hot topic for lawyers in general and criminal lawyers in particular.

Additional examples of opinions covering cloud services are Pennsylvania Bar Association, Committee on Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility, Formal Opinion 2011 - 200, «Ethical Obligations for Attorneys Using Cloud Computing / Software as a Service While Fulfilling the Duties of Confidentiality and Preservation of Client Property» (November, 2011) and North Carolina State Bar 2011 Formal Ethics Opinion 6, «Subscribing to Software as a Service While Fulfilling the Duties of Confidentiality and Preservation of Client Property» (January, 2012).

And in practice, the most articulate proponents of the defending narrative — Marie Henein would be a good example — are also the lawyers who could (and do) give master classes on how to vigorously cross-examine a witness in a sexual assault case in a manner consistent with their legal and ethical obligations.

Nevertheless, all this should mean little in the face of the practical need for lawyers to obtain quick in - house legal advice on client matters to help ensure compliance with their ethical and legal obligations.

Eight advisory opinions were issued, and the staff authored three ethics guides on the subjects of succession planning for lawyers and law firms, the ethical obligations of lawyers who are changing law firms, and considerations for lawyers who are leaving the practice of law to take judicial office.

To further demonstrate our commitment, and to fulfill our ethical obligation for pro-bono work, we generously contribute to «and Justice for all» on behalf of our attorneys.

When one clicks on the link, one sees pointers to a list of what are pretty clearly term - paper mills (an ironic result given that my book, among other things, tries to stress the perils and impropriety of plagiarism — though perhaps not unexpected, given that some customers who are looking for books on writing may also be looking for other, less ethical, ways of satisfying their writing obligations).

Hodgson will speak on a panel titled «Ethical Obligations of Experts: In Theory But Also in Practice?»

The overall focus was on creating an end - to - end information governance strategy to help businesses protect their assets and maintain ethical obligations to clients» security.