Sentences with phrase «report ethics violations»

So long as lawyers must risk their jobs to report ethics violations, they won't.

(CNN)- Gov. Bob McDonnell, already under fire for reported ethics violations, apparently took a flight to the Final Four basketball tournament in April 2011 that was sponsored by one of his political donors, according to the Virginia - Pilot.

«Instinct might argue that a lawyer should not be subject to termination because he or she reports ethics violations by another attorney to disciplinary authorities.»

Not exact matches

In the worst cases, whistleblowers claim they were fired after reporting violations to the bank's ethics hotline or trying to alert supervisors to illegal behavior.

He reported Warner's possible violations of FIFA's ethics code to the soccer body's secretary general, Jerome Valcke.

«On May 24 2011, Fifa executive committee member and Concacaf general secretary Chuck Blazer reported to Fifa secretary general Jerome Valcke possible violations of the Fifa code of ethics allegedly committed by officials,» a Fifa statement read.

A House investigative committee is charging Rangel with ethics violations, stemming from a nearly two - year investigation into his finances, his failure to report rental income from a villa he owns in the Dominican Republic, his use of multiple rent - stabilized apartments, and his efforts to fundraise for a City College center named after him.

On May 2, 2007, the Los Angeles Times reported that Villaraigosa was under investigation for ethics violations.

House of Representatives investigators accused the longtime Harlem legislator of 13 violations of congressional ethics standards at the end of July, including failing to report hundreds of thousands of dollars in income and assets on his financial disclosure statements.

«With ongoing federal investigations into potential ethics violations by several state lawmakers, this report highlights that there are many legal channels through which special interests exert their influence in Sacramento,» Kathay Feng, executive director of CA Common Cause, said in a press release.

This afternoon State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced that he was passing off the responsibility of investigating David Paterson's reported attempt to influence court proceedings against one of his own aides and his reported violation of state ethics laws regarding a few Yankees tickets.

Although their ethics reports appear to be filled out incorrectly, in violation of Connecticut's ethics laws, it appears that ConnAD, the Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Advocacy, Inc., spent nearly $ 825,000 in their effort to pressure legislators to support Malloy's bill.

For that matter, Consumer Reports pays its staff to review toaster ovens, and I think we'd all agree there's no ethics violation there.

You can always report broker ethics violations to your state's mortgage licensing governing body, but it would be after the fact.

«In 2011 it was reported that Hansen, in violation of ethics laws that regulate government contracts, had failed to publicly disclose $ 1.6 million he had earned in outside income, apart from his GISS salary.

Resigned: «Utah's embattled attorney general, John Swallow, resigned Thursday amid persistent questions about whether he had committed widespread ethics violations, saying the legal fight had become too costly,» The New York Times reports.

Though two jurisdictions, New York and Connecticut, will allow claims by lawyers terminated in apparent retaliation for reporting a firm's (or its lawyers) ethics violations, at least two other jurisdictions do not.

You are entitled to report your lawyer in the case of any ethics violations.

However, I have to say that until we got word of two earlier decisions that had cleared members of Crowell & Moring of ethics violations, reported in yesterday's «The BLT: The Blog of the Legal Times,» we were unaware of this: In 2011, Crowell's D.C. — based partners Clifford Zatz, William Anderson and Kirsten Nathanson, and counsel Monica Welt, wrote a memo for their mining industry clients «that raised the specter of inbreeding in the Appalachian region.»

A Georgetown University Law Center professor said plaintiffs» lawyer Mark Lanier committed a «very serious violation» of legal ethics when he misleadingly told a jury his expert witnesses were unpaid, Law360 reports....

We discussed the company's business process and productivity apps, designed to solve very specific problems, including contract review and approval, ethics violation tracking, and whistle blower reporting.

During all those years I never had a single incident reported to the Canadian Appraisal Institute or had to legally defend an ethics or malpractice violation.

That means Realtors taking on the job of policing themselves via reporting all and sundry violations of prescribed ethics driven behaviours, illegal acts, and even behaviours that fall beyond the boundaries of purely a moral essence, even if they fall within the bounds of ethics guidlines and legal principles.