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Showing posts with label ethics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ethics. Show all posts
Monday, March 18, 2024

Mass. attorney board rushes to racialize, shun 'overseer,' ignores word's ancient, biblical usages

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A proposal published for public comment would change the name of the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers to the "Board of Bar Oversi...
Monday, March 11, 2024

Book supports legal privilege for undercover reporting

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Truth and Transparency , a recent book by Professors Alan K. Chen and Justin Marceau , is a comprehensive and gratifying tour of the histor...
Thursday, February 15, 2024

Sherman speaks on lawyering, Spotlight investigation

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Ambassador Robert Sherman RJ Peltz-Steele CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Attorney Robert A. Sherman , U.S. ambassador to Portugal from 2014 to 2017, spoke ...
Tuesday, February 13, 2024

Lawyers on social media delight, inform, raise ethics questions about attorney-client relationships

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An attorney panel earlier this month shared the joys and hazards of lawyers addressing the general public through social media. A hat tip to...
Tuesday, February 6, 2024

AI can make law better and more accessible; it won't

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Gencraft AI image Artificial intelligence is changing the legal profession, and the supply of legal services is growing even more disconnec...
Thursday, February 1, 2024

Naming rape suspects may draw criminal charges for journalists under Northern Ireland privacy law

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Bernard Goldbach via Flickr CC BY 2.0 In Northern Ireland, it's a crime for a journalist to identify a rape suspect. The relevant provi...
Tuesday, September 12, 2023

'Fisk' is the civil-practice lawyer you've been looking for

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If you're looking to fill that Netflix queue as the writers' strike drags on, check out the Australian sitcom, Fisk . When I put tog...
Sunday, September 10, 2023

Ethics problems in law, education inform message on Christian ethics in biblical story of widow's offering

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Last Sunday, it was my privilege to deliver a message on "Christian ethics," arising from Mark 12:41-44 , at my local church in Ba...
Monday, August 28, 2023

Can Arsenal supporter be impartial in football inquiry?

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A curious story of lawyering ethics and football allegiance broke in mid-May, just after I went off contract with UMass Law and left the Sta...
Sunday, January 23, 2022

Business touting 'access,' 'journalism' is an ad broker

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I find this ad,* "Because Journalism Matters," below, which I saw on my local morning news, troubling. One could certainly get the...
Saturday, January 22, 2022

Schneider proposes (more) insider trading reform for Congress; background guarantees to outrage

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Ever feel like it's harder and harder to pay higher and higher bills, even while the news raves about low unemployment, a rising stock m...
Saturday, January 1, 2022

Code might inevitably regulate journalism in digital age

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The U.K. Information Commissioner's Office is working on a "journalism code of practice" to legislate against defamation and ...