Sentences with phrase «what ethical obligations»

Our vision is to find ways to serve clients better: to bring down costs so that real people can afford us (and so we are better than the competition); to practice our profession ethically, based on deep reflection about what ethical obligations require of us in a changing world; and to do all of this while also living live good and fulfilled lives.

Put another way, because lawyers are obligated to adhere to the ethical rules to protect clients, finding out what their ethical obligations are is «part of what clients and the legal system expect lawyers to do, serves to reinforce ethical behavior, and informs future conduct.»

In setting a ghg emissions reduction target, what ethical obligations to nations and people outside the US has it taken into account.

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What are an employer's ethical obligations when an employee gets caught doing something bad off the clock?

But what's particularly worrisome here is that Ford, who by all rights ought to be the guy who leads council in understanding its ethical obligations, seems to be utterly clueless about them.

The ethical obligations of business executives are not, despite what the critics say, obvious and easy.

Ethical obligations are in one sense necessarily universal: they refer to what anyone ought to do or to approve.

That is, they are under both ethical and epistemic obligations to argue for the truth of what they take themselves to believe when they are faced with religious others who appear to believe something different and to act differently based upon such difference in belief.

What they leave out of Abraham's history is dread; for to money I have no ethical obligation, but to the son the father has the highest and most sacred obligation.

Accordingly, to tell what concrete descriptions of personal identity and ethical obligation are possible within the matrix of the Psychological Physiology, I shall supplement its «conjectures» with certain features of Merleau - Ponty's phenomenology of the body and perception.

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.

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.

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.

And so if climate change raises civilization challenging ethical questions which imply duties, responsibilities, and obligations what questions should the press ask opponents of climate change policies when they make economic and scientific arguments against climate change policies?

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.

We conclude in this paper that high - emitting nations have an ethical responsibility to fund adaptation needs in vulnerable nations and to provide funds for loss and damages in these nations despite difficult questions in determining precisely what the amount of these obligations are.

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.

(See, Brown, 2011 for a discussion of specific practical consequences that follow from recognition that climate change is an ethical problem) These consequences include that nations should commit to do what their ethical responsibilities, obligations, and duties requires of them without regard to whether all other nations are agreeing to do so.

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.

What is our ethical obligation is not to hand off a planet that's habitable?

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).

Lawyers have ethical obligations that restrict what they can say or do online, usually restrictions related to advertising and promotion.

Here the attendees will be joining our speakers to discuss issues of interest in such sessions as: «Going Beyond the Law Society of BC's Cloud Checklist», «Technology and Legal Ethics: What are a lawyer's ethical obligations in connection with technology?

If a lawyer's compliance with his or her ethical obligations is defined by his or her actions, what are the actions, then, that this purported duty requires of us?

What, then, are a lawyer's ethical obligations in the use of electronic communications in the post-Snowden era?

In other words, there is a danger that the self - interested nature of the quid pro quo premise will, in turn, foster a self - interested approach to ethical conduct that focuses on minimal compliance with ethical obligations (i.e. what one can «get away with») in the name of maximizing personal or institutional self - interests (in profits or reputation, for example).

While it seems difficult to imagine what legal entity could be appropriately regulated for in - house counsel, it is not difficult to see an obligation for in - house counsel to arrange their practices so as to best support their ethical obligations.

I raise this issue not to crucify the courts (though they really need to clean up this mess), but to pose the question to the attorneys, what are our ethical obligations in this situation?

Something like «what happens if a client runs out of money mid-case» actually has legal aspects (because there are ethical obligations on lawyers, which have to do directly with the law).

We identify and spell out corporate legal department ethical obligations, and help clients perform internal investigations and answer sensitive questions - including when to commence an investigation, who should run an investigation, how to decide document confidentiality, and what steps to take at the conclusion of the investigation.

While it is human nature to want to «win,» both lawyers and doctors have an ethical obligation to be mindful of potential biases and external motivations, and do what they can to negate them.

Florida title insurance lawyers understand the duties and liabilities that come with title insurance coverage, and have an ethical obligation to assist buyers and sellers with making sure that the closing proceeds with as much protection as possible against future title challenges (most Florida real estate lawyers perform these services, along with closing the transaction, at no more expense than what a title company will charge to close the transaction).