Newly released ethics guidance for the federal judiciary makes clear that judges can speak out against “illegitimate forms of ...

In a legislative session that should focus on the state’s most pressing problems, Louisiana lawmakers are pursuing a wide-ranging rewrite of the state’s ethics code that would whittle away at the ...

On Monday, the Supreme Court released a unanimously agreed-upon “Code of Conduct” that promotes transparency and clarity. This release directly responded to mounting outside pressures over the past ...

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?

Law Firm Partnership Law columnist Arthur J. Ciampi writes: Despite the prevalence of non-equity partner positions and the substantial benefit they bring to the profession and to the careers of many ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A bipartisan bill to boost transparency and make sure incoming presidents stick to an ethics plan was so uncontroversial that it ...

The Supreme Court announced Monday it was adopting a code of conduct amid growing criticism about justices’ perceived ethics conflicts — but with legal experts and Democratic lawmakers saying the code ...

ProPublica reported April 6 that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas accepted tens of thousands of dollars in gifts from a Texas billionaire without including them on financial disclosures. The ...

Attorneys representing immigrants must always consider their ethical obligations to clients. Join expert attorneys as they discuss Model Rules 1.18, 1.1, 1.4, 1.6, & 1.7. "The outcome of cases that ...

FEBRUARY. WELL, HAPPENING RIGHT NOW. LAWMAKERS ARE IN BATON ROUGE WITH A BUSY DAY IN THE LEGISLATIVE SESSION AND ONE BILL BEING CONSIDERED COULD CHANGE ETHICS LAWS AND ALSO OFFER MORE PROTECTIONS FOR ...

Recent concerns about leaks of US Supreme Court decisions and Justice Clarence Thomas’s refusal to recuse himself in a case that might involve connections to his wife, Virginia Thomas, have spurred ...