All attorneys must abide by the Rules of Professional Conduct, but many fail to realize that similar requirements apply to most individuals providing expert testimony. These standards can provide ...

The New York attorney disciplinary authority has declined to launch an ethics investigation into several prominent U.S. law firms accused of unethical conduct in connection with business arrangements ...

Ethics are the moral principles that guide people to act one way and not another. Attorneys make ethical decisions every day when deciding how to defend or represent a client, and attorneys working ...

Does anyone doubt the need for heightened standards of ethics in all the professions in the United States today? In recent scandals, too many accountants, lawyers, bankers, security analysts, and ...

In response to numerous inquiries concerning "seller's concessions," the Advisory Committee on Professional Ethics says Opinion 710 does not implicate a contract of sale that explicitly states that ...

The Supreme Court has ordered the disenrollment of an Attorney-at-Law from Kandy, who was convicted of violating the ...

Have you ever felt frustrated by “legalese,” the use of highly technical, complex, archaic, and sometimes redundant terms in legal documents such as statutes, contracts, policies, and codes of ethics?

There is no reason why a law firm backed by private equity would be “less professionally ethical” than one owned by its ...

A coalition of left-wing groups and law professors is aggressively filing ethics complaints against high-ranking government ...

Why should any private equity owned firm be less ethical than a traditional law firm partnership? Why is any increase in private equity ownership of law practices different to the arrival of ...

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