The Law Society, which represents solicitors in England and Wales, said lawyers had a professional obligation to provide clients with clear information about charges, and the report would be very helpful to lawyers and clients in reminding them of this.
First, it represents a rare example of a court holding lawyers to the same high standards of professional behavior that lawyers impose, through litigation, on doctors, accountants, engineers and other professionals.
The SEC enforcement staff has recently reported more lawyers to the agency's general counsel, who can take administrative action against lawyers for alleged professional misconduct.
All 12 players, who will leave at the end of the season, met lawyers from the Professional Rugby Players' Association on Friday to discuss their next move.
Others accept that, where legal work is concerned, the lawyers' tighter standards on confidentiality will have to apply, and that lawyers should continue to be regulated by their professional bodies and managed by fellow lawyers.
Kennedy's name also is on the Sacramento chapter of a professional association of lawyers, the Anthony M.
Professional codes instruct lawyers to be civil, but rudeness isn't tracked or punished as much as more concrete trespasses, such as filching clients' money.
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While in some cases lawyers do not manage the transition well or wisely, what is the alternative to professional movement: career government lawyers chained to their desks?
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Generally they have come from the ranks of investment bankers and lawyers who have spent their entire professional careers representing securities firms and publicly held corporations.
Think entrepreneurs, doctors, lawyers, movie stars, and professional athletes.
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In his May 15 letter to Brooklyn Supreme Court Judge Danny Chun, Mr. Shargel charged that the decision to broadcast "behind the scenes" footage of prosecutors preparing for his client's trial was a "clear violation" of the New York Rules of Professional Conduct, which lawyers are mandated to follow.
Our top earners include entrepreneurs, rock stars, professional athletes, surgeons and lawyers.
Professional men, merchants, lawyers, scientists and revolutionaries all sought to wrest the business of inter-state relations away from monarchs, despots, generals and a diplomatic corps heaving with aristocrats, and onto a more rational, technocratic footing.
Lawyers, accountants, architects and other professional service providers who organize themselves as S-Corps. are waiting to see whether Congress will eliminate their ability to take their earnings as profits, which aren't subject to employment taxes, rather than as wages.
In 2010, Justice Department officials overruled a recommendation by its ethics office to sanction for professional misconduct the Bush-era lawyers who wrote those memos, and decided not to charge C.
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Lawyers, accountants, management consultants and other professional-services grunts are drawn to London partly for the same reasons financial-services firms cluster there the global ubiquity of English and a time zone midway between the rich old world and emerging Asia.
Professional rules governing the legal profession force lawyers into a narrow groove, scriveners who don't attend to a deal's underlying business aspects.
Lawyers, accountants and architects and people who provided other professional services were more likely to have low scores.
Although more than half of Harvard undergraduates end up in law, medicine or business, future doctors and lawyers must study a non-specialist liberal-arts degree before embarking on a professional qualification.
Bankers say they are also paying more attention to a growing class of professional affluent and high-net-worth overseas Indian professionals like doctors, lawyers and senior bankers.
But so long as BigLaw remains a professional sector that wields such enormous economic and political power, it is a mistake to urge women lawyers to give up the fight for parity there.
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