Sentences with phrase «state ethics boards»

I'm sure the other lawyers mentioned above will be getting similar letters from their own state ethics boards.

It's come up so far and I think six or seven different state ethics boards where you write in a letter and ask a question and they send back and answer five of the six have said that it violates fee sharing and unauthorized practice law and a bunch of other different things.

Lawyers, legal publishers (ala Martindale - Hubbell), national & state bar associations, and state ethics boards get all hung up in the argument that the rating of lawyers is beyond the capability of average folks.

Remember, most state ethics boards require that a client's file be readily available, should the client demand it.

Dropbox's short history has been fairly checkered with regard to these security issues (a statement which a Google search on «Dropbox security» will quickly confirm)-- so much so that not just IT, but law firm risk management counsel and even state ethics boards have been forced to take note.

A lawyer in Nebraska, US, will start to accept cryptocurrency for his practices after asking the state ethics board.

During this morning's JCOPE meeting the state ethics board released a draft report on disclosure rules requiring lobbyists and lobbying groups to disclose individual donors who give more than $ 5000.

The harassment charges against Klein are currently being investigated by a state ethics board.

The scandal resulted in multiple probes conducted by the AG, the IG, the Albany County DA and the state ethics board, the Commission on Public Integrity (the precursor to JCOPE).

A New York state ethics board has denied applications from groups on both sides of the abortion debate a request to keep private their donor lists.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo had secured approval in 2012 from the state ethics board to write his memoir and promised not to use state resources to write or promote it, according to letters released last night.

A unanimous state ethics board appears to launch a full investigation into the Assembly's sexual harassment scandal.

ALBANY, N.Y. (CBSNewYork / AP)-- Gov. Andrew Cuomo is replacing the chairwoman of the troubled state ethics board he created more than a year ago.

A unanimous state ethics board vote appears to launch a full investigation into the Assembly's sexual harassment scandal.

Governor Andrew Cuomo continues to defend a decision by a state ethics board to keep secret the names of donors to a lobbying group that is a key ally of the governor.

As reported in Politico New York, there is a second way, other than the state ethics board, for a curious chief executive to find out if his top aides represented outside clients that might pose a potential conflict of interest.

The Legislative Ethics Commission, under pressure from the state ethics board, has released the report.

A state ethics board has denied applications from groups on both sides of the abortion debate a request to keep private their donor lists.

Among other things, the proposal calls for «wider authority» for the state ethics board to root out conflicts of interest by local government officials.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is replacing the chairwoman of the state ethics board he created more than a year ago with a lawyer who once represented Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff.

Gov. David Paterson's lawyer says e-mails blow holes in a state ethics board's probe that accuses the Democrat of violating a gift ban by seeking and obtaining World Series tickets...

N.Y. (AP)-- Two political advocacy groups are considering a legal appeal after a New York state ethics board rejected their request to shield major donors from public disclosure.

This summer, the state ethics board ruled she could take a job with the school district again.

Not exact matches

In studying professional engineering, one is required to take a course in professional ethics, which is required material for the PE boards in all 50 states, to my knowledge.

«Even after a state ethics report criticized him for covering up allegations of sexual harassment against a powerful assemblyman, even after a prosecutor said his failure to act might have put other women at risk, even after a number of editorial boards called for his ouster, Mr. Silver is still standing strong.»

Cuomo's subpoena - empowered commission was close down following an agreement on ethics legislation last year that included new anti-corruption laws and independent enforcement at the state Board of Elections.

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.

He also repeated claims that Albany's scrutiny of his own fundraising — which included probes by a state ethics panel and state Board of Elections — was unfair.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)-- New York's secretive ethics board made it clear Monday that members did not vote to block the investigation of a sexual - harassment scandal in the state Assembly.

Cuomo is also calling for establishing an independent ethics commission, full disclosure of outside income and clients by legislators, a board of trustees rather than the sole trustee model for the state comptroller's office and the creation of «Open NY» — a one - stop - shopping clearinghouse of all public information much like his «Project Sunlight» at the AG's office.

New York City is flouting a state law that requires unpaid members of policymaking boards and commissions to file financial - disclosure statements — an ethics breach that allows officials on some powerful panels to make decisions without any sunlight on potential conflicts of interest.

Cuomo is planning to begin a Moreland Act Commission to investigate campaign finance violations at the state Board of Elections if lawmakers do not approve an ethics package.

Cuomo introduced an ethics package in his $ 142 billion budget that calls for stricter anti-bribery and corruption penalties as well as increased oversight at the state Board of Elections.

New York state's ethics board is coming under criticism as it launches an investigation that is believed to focus on a sexual harassment scandal in the Assembly.

A two - month examination of the practices of nearly two dozen Capital Region ethics boards revealed many of the panels meet only «as needed» and do not update their codes or proactively conduct investigations — throwing them into a state of dormancy that can last years.

Critics of the patchwork system say the state Legislature has failed to provide guidance on how local municipal ethics boards should operate.

The attorney general can not start a public corruption probe unless it is referred by a head of a state executive agency, the governor or the state legislative ethics board.

Davies was on the temporary state commission on local government ethics in the early 1990s, which proposed legislation mandating local ethics boards and dictating how they would operate.

The state Committee on Open Government has said that while part, or all, of ethics board investigations into complaints can be blacked out or kept confidential, meeting records still must be made public.

The state's ethics board has called a special meeting immediately after Labor Day.

In particular, he wants it to create a state ethics control board that is independent and has «robust enforcement powers» over both the Legislature and the governor's offices.If that doesn't happen in the first six months, Mr. Cuomo says he will indeed allow Mr. Schneiderman's office to become Albany's one - stop, anti-sleaze operation.

The PTO, in a statement, said his actions violate the board and school code of ethics and the state's anti-bullying Dignity for All Students Act.

Governor Cuomo is now calling for an independent investigation by the state's ethics board, and one of the legislators named in the scandals, Assemblyman Vito Lopez, has decided not to seek re election as Brooklyn Democratic Party leader.

Horner says the governor and legislative leaders need to go «back to the drawing board» and create better state based ethics oversight.

After the landmark ethics overhaul enacted last year, the State Board of Elections has developed rules for the disclosure of spending by outside groups, but those that don't explicitly advocate for the election or defeat of a candidate are exempt from this requirement.

Krebs said the other elements of the job as described to him by JCOPE officials included educating state officials on ethics and eliminating «duplicate filings» with the legislature's ethics board and the New York City lobbying commission.

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.

The law also has provisions pertaining to business relationships between lobbyists and lawmakers, changes rules about who can launch an ethics investigation and how, and requires the state Board of Elections to clarify requirements for independent campaign spending, the Associated Press reports, via the Wall Street Journal.

The ethics officials informed Woodstock Times that, pursuant to an opinion from Robert Freeman, executive director of the state Committee on Open Government, the board would vote to conduct the hearing in an executive session that would be closed to the public, including the press.

What a mockery of ethics it would be if he tried, and what a farce it would be if the state Board of Elections let him.