Zooming into a Malpractice Suit: Updating the Model Rules of Professional Conduct in Response to Socially Distanced Lawyering

This chapter analyzes and recommends federal corporate governance enhancements that should be implemented. These enhancements, which should be adopted in a measured and directed manner, are necessary to remediate certain deficiencies that currently exist. Consistent therewith, this chapter focuses on several important matters that merit attention, including the undue deference by federal courts to state law, the appropriate application of federal law to tactics undertaken in tender offers, the need for a federal statute encompassing insider trading, and the propriety of more vigorous oversight by the Securities and Exchange Commission (such as with respect to the “current” disclosure regime, the SEC’s Standards of Professional Conduct for Attorneys, and the Commission’s neglecting at times to invoke its statutory resources). Thus, the analysis set forth in this chapter identifies significant deficiencies that currently exist and recommends measures that should be implemented on the federal level to enhance corporate governance standards.

Monitoring Compliance with Professional Guidance. A Discussion Paper prepared by the Compliance/Peer Review Working Party of the Professional Affairs Board

British Actuarial Journal ◽

10.1017/s1357321700001859 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 365-431

Keyword(s):

Peer Review ◽

Financial Services ◽

Working Party ◽

Professional Conduct ◽

Discussion Paper ◽

Professional Guidance

ABSTRACTThis is a discussion paper prepared by the Compliance/Peer Review Working Party of the Professional Affairs Board. It considers the monitoring of compliance with the professional conduct standard and guidance notes, how this is being done, and whether changes need to be made to the monitoring in the light of on-going changes to the regulation of financial services.

Code of Professional Conduct

British Journal of Occupational Therapy ◽

10.1177/030802269005300406 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 53 (4) ◽

pp. 143-148 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Keyword(s):

Professional Conduct ◽

Code Of Professional Conduct

New codes of professional conduct come into effect

Veterinary Record ◽

10.1136/vr.e2784 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 170 (16) ◽

pp. 401-401

Keyword(s):

Professional Conduct ◽

New Codes

Thematic analysis of the new ACM Code of Ethics and professional conduct

ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society ◽

10.1145/181900.181903 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 24 (2) ◽

pp. 21-26 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

C. Dianne Martin ◽

David H. Martin

Keyword(s):

Thematic Analysis ◽

Code Of Ethics ◽

Professional Conduct

Social media and social change lawyering: influencing change and silencing dissent

Media International Australia ◽

10.1177/1329878x18803378 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 169 (1) ◽

pp. 65-73

Author(s):

Naomi Sayers

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Social Change ◽

Legal System ◽

Media Use ◽

Legal Profession ◽

Upper Canada ◽

Professional Conduct ◽

Positive Approach ◽

Marginalized Communities ◽

The Law

The Law Society of Ontario (formerly, the Law Society of Upper Canada) oversees the legal profession in Ontario, Canada, through The Rules of Professional Conduct (‘Rules’). All future lawyers and paralegals must adhere to the Rules. The Law Society sometimes provides guidance on sample policies informed by the Rules. In this article, the author closely examines the Law Society’s guidance on social media. The author argues that this guidance fails to understand how the Rules regulate experiences out of the legal profession and fails to see the positive possibilities of social media to influence social change, especially in ways that conflict with the colonial legal system. The author concludes that the Law Society must take a positive approach and provide some guidance for the legal profession on their social media use, especially around critiquing the colonial legal system. This positive approach is essential to avoid duplicating the systems and structures that perpetuate disadvantage in marginalized communities.