Sentences with phrase «state bar regulators»

«This seems to be another in a series of recent regulatory efforts by state bar regulators that seem woefully out of touch with the Internet era,» wrote Dennis Kennedy, a St. Louis lawyer who posts at Between Lawyers.

«This seems to be another in a series of recent regulatory efforts by state bar regulators that seem woefully out of touch with the Internet era.»

It seems that there's enough of that going around to keep state bar regulators busy as it is.

Not exact matches

Other projects have tried to work around regulators by prohibiting American investors from buying their coins, which they have done by barring anyone who tries to buy the coins from an internet address associated with the United States.

State regulators suspended the liquor license of a Washington Heights nightclub — the Vapor Lounge & Bar — after a series of brawls and other incidents at the site this month.

A state Supreme Court judge in Albany County issued a temporary restraining order Wednesday barring regulators from implementing new rules to prevent energy service companies, or ESCOs, from selling to low - income customers.

For both application of existing rules and the promulgation of new ones, state regulators are being guided somewhat by national bodies — mainly the American Bar Association — but as the world of legal ethics evolves along with technology, there remains a need to consult local authorities on all ethics rules.

Since that time, for a variety of reasons, including a Supreme Court decision that found certain ABA efforts to limit UPL to be anti-competitive, UPL prosecutions have declined.4 Still, every state but one has an unauthorized practice of law statute that makes it illegal for anyone who doesn't meet the requirements set by state bars or lawyer regulators to practice law.

He recently noted that the Bar was («quite rightly») determined to safeguard its own independence from the state but he expressed his surprise to see barristers «so often turning to government to seek to persuade it to constrain the independence of the statutory regulator».

Lawyers should pay attention to the activities of lawyer and non-lawyer competition, and pay equal attention to the activities of lawyer / law practice regulators (i.e. their state bar associations and supreme courts).

They have the state bar as both a regulator and an advocacy organization, so the courts have had to step in so that there is a neutral public interest body with some say over lawyers» conduct.

However, as we previously wrote in an article for the New York Legal Ethics Reporter, these attempts have been met with significant resistance by bar regulators and ethics committees largely owing to the current state of the law and ethics rules.

To expand access to justice, state supreme courts, state bar associations, admitting authorities, and other regulators should devise and consider for adoption new or improved frameworks for licensing or otherwise authorizing providers of legal and related services.

«Just the fact that securities regulators in Canada and the United States [are] just kind of raising the bar, and more and more information has to be made available, so those kind of issues are something that I'm dealing with,» he says.

In those states, regulators bar the use of credit - based insurance scores.

The Bureau received over 2,800 comments on the TILA - RESPA proposal during the comment period from, among others, consumer advocacy groups; national, State, and regional industry trade associations; banks; community banks; credit unions; financial companies; mortgage brokers; title insurance underwriters; title insurance agents and companies; settlement agents; escrow agents; law firms; document software companies; loan origination software companies; appraisal management companies; appraisers; State housing finance authorities, counseling associations, and intermediaries; State attorneys general; associations of State financial services regulators; State bar associations; government sponsored enterprises (GSEs); a member of the U.S. Congress; the Committee on Small Business of the U.S. House of Representatives; Federal agencies, including the staff of the Bureau of Consumer Protection, the Bureau of Economics, and the Office of Policy Planning of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC staff), and the Office of Advocacy of the Small Business Administration (SBA); and individual consumers and academics.