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Code of Professional Responsibility |
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Code of Professional Responsibility n. a set of rules governing the ethical conduct of attorneys in the practice of the law. It covers such topics as conflicts of interest, honesty with clients, confidentiality, and conduct toward other attorneys and the courts. First developed and pushed by the American Bar Association the code has been adopted by most states. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Organized under a Model Rule format, the treatise provides a detailed discussion of Ohio's new Rules of Professional Conduct, which officially replaces the Code of Professional Responsibility on Feb. Arguing that practicing lawyers should be exempt from issuing recently mandated privacy notices to clients because their Code of Professional Responsibility provides far more protections for consumers of legal services, the New York State Bar Association (NYSBA) today, Monday, April 29, filed suit against the Federal Trade Commission to stop enforcement of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley (GLB) Act as it applies to lawyers. After lengthy discussion and debate within the nation's largest voluntary state bar association, the proposal developed by the NYSBA Special Committee to Review the Code of Professional Responsibility (the Code governs the daily business and ethical behavior of the state's 100,000-plus lawyers), was approved last January by the Association's House of Delegates. |
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