Government ethics rules require impartiality in the performance of government duties and avoidance of preferential treatment.
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Ethics rules seem to prohibit U.S. lawyers from selling a stake in their fees to nonlawyers.
Ethics rules requiring that law firms be owned only by lawyers help explain the disparity.
In order to comply with new ethics rules, Senators and Congressmen can't accept sit-down meals.
Yet state ethics rules prohibit lawyers from using the threat of criminal liability to obtain advantage in a civil settlement.
Finally, after months of angry words and bad publicity, Republican leaders relented and brought back the old bipartisan ethics rules.
The two chambers write their own ethics rules, but both impose limits on how lawmakers can approach an executive-branch agency.
Legal ethics rules also prohibit Juridica, as an outside investor, from dictating when or whether a plaintiff will settle a case.
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The ethics rules are a little murky on whether a lawyer in his position actually has an attorney-client relationship with every client.
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And he publicly threatened criminal action to force Merrill into a civil settlement--despite state ethics rules that forbid this kind of leverage.
We've instituted very tough ethics rules for those that serve in government.
The ethics rules are "critically important, as is avoiding even the appearance of a conflict of interest, " Ms. Schapiro said in an interview.
Formal Opinion 10-457, a six-page, footnote-laden guide tells ABA members, in essence, how to avoid violating ethics rules when they set up websites or communicate with potential clients online.
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The previous FDA head, Andrew von Eschenbach, permitted self-styled whistleblowers to flout the agency's ethics rules by publicly contradicting agency policy and disparaging drugs and drug companies that they disliked.
The decision to step down marked an unexpected change of heart for the Nevada Republican who as recently as last month said he would remain in office until his planned retirement from politics because he had not violated ethics rules.
Following Watergate, a scandal far worse than what we have seen thus far, Congress and the president adopted a number of major government reforms that included a new campaign finance system, ethics rules, the Office of the Independent Counsel, and much more.
In a few minutes, we'll talk to the woman in charge of ethics and rules changes in the new Congress.
OXFORD, ENGLAND -- At the TED conference, Jonathan Zittrain, a professor at Harvard Law School, made a laugh-out-loud defense of the Internet as a place not of unruly and nasty bloggers, but a place that has its own emerging set of ethics, rules and principles.
But we've put in place tougher rules on lobbying and ethics and transparency -- tougher rules than any administration in history.
He also has served as Executive Assistant U.S. Attorney for Operations, and as Special Counsel to the U.S. Attorney for Professional Development and Legal Policy, and he advises and trains Assistant U.S. Attorneys on issues involving ethics and the Rules of Professional Conduct.
Under government ethics laws and SEC rules, agency commissioners and staff can't participate in anything with a direct impact on their financial interests or connected to certain organizations, such as recent previous employers, clients or their spouse's employer.
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Monex moved to block the government's use of the tens of thousands of pages, focusing on the fact that Spondello was still a Monex employee both when he took the documents and when he gave them to the IRS. Lawyer ethics and IRS administrative rules might restrict the government's ablity to employ the material against Monex.
Conrad is consulting with the Senate Ethics Committee because there are rules against senators taking gifts.
Then, House Republican leaders got together behind closed doors and drafted new rules for how ethics charges would be investigated.
His ethics stumbles (which included not paying taxes on a Caribbean villa, and taking a number of sun-filled trips which were paid for by corporations), were many and well known, yet went unpunished by Congress until last month, when he was admonished by the House Ethics Committee for violating gift rules.
Beyond the personnel changes, House Republicans have also moved to change the rules of the House ethics committee, making it much harder for the panel to investigate politically charged cases.
And third and perhaps most important, the people launching these attacks play by a different set of rules that ignores patents, copyrights, and ethics, but they are business minded themselves.
Earlier Tuesday, the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics filed a complaint with the ethics committee seeking an investigation into whether Craig violated Senate rules by engaging in disorderly conduct.
Although Stenholm stopped short of calling for Condit's resignation, his choice of words was noteworthy because bringing discredit to Congress is listed as a violation of House rules in a manual issued by the House Ethics Committee.
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