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10 Jun 2013, 8:31 am by Soroush Seifi
”[12] There is no doubt that in Canada public lawyers are the individuals entrusted with a public prosecutorial role funded by the taxpayers of this country and this adds strength to the argument for an independent office of professional responsibility for public lawyers such as prosecutors. [read post]
22 Feb 2013, 12:45 pm by Nate Anderson
Thanks to the FBI's Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), which rounds up accounts of these infractions and distributes the cautionary tales to employees each quarter, we get glimpses of the seedier side of life inside the agency. [read post]
15 Aug 2012, 4:33 pm by admin
“We understand the fear that undocumented immigrant crime victims have with coming forward to law enforcement,” said Shawn Fallah, resident agent in charge of ICE’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) Seattle. [read post]
12 Jun 2012, 4:58 am
Overseeing enforcement of Circular 230 is the Office of Professional Responsibility. [read post]
6 Jun 2012, 10:30 am by Mike Scarcella
The department’s Office of Professional Responsibility concluded that two prosecutors, Joseph Bottini and James Goeke, assistant U.S. attorneys in Alaska, committed reckless professional misconduct by failing to follow rules that control the disclosure of evidence to defense lawyers. [read post]
24 May 2012, 12:42 pm by Mike Scarcella
OPR did not make any professional misconduct findings against any of the other Stevens prosecutors, including William Welch II, Brenda Morris and Edward Sullivan. [read post]
24 May 2012, 10:06 am by Mike Scarcella
The department's Office of Professional Responsibility investigation unfolded simultaneously with a criminal probe of the Stevens prosecution team. [read post]
14 May 2012, 1:06 pm by Steve Hall
Attorney Sally Quillian Yates said she reported Todd Alley and Matthew Jackson to the department's Office of Professional Responsibility last month after U.S. [read post]
8 May 2012, 4:48 pm by LindaMBeale
  Karen Hawkins, the Director of the Office of Professional Responsibility (fondly known by its acronym of OPR) indicated today in a Tax Talks session that OPR has become aware that contingent fees continue to be charged for filing amended returns, particularly in the case of refundable tax credits, such as the R&D credit. [read post]
2 May 2012, 9:07 pm by Jeralyn
Here are the Judiciary Committee's documents including the Office of Professional Responsibility Reports. [read post]
24 Apr 2012, 3:50 pm by Bill Otis
In the same time period, only one-third of one percent (.33 percent) of these cases warranted inquiries and investigations of professional misconduct by the Department's Office of Professional Responsibility. [read post]
16 Apr 2012, 8:56 am by Todd Ruger
While the Justice Department hasn’t yet published its internal ethics investigation being conducted by the Office of Professional Responsibility on the Stevens case, Welch’s attorneys say the OPR told him in August that he did not commit professional misconduct or exercise poor judgment in the Stevens case. [read post]
28 Mar 2012, 10:39 am by Mike Scarcella
” The Justice Department has yet to publish a companion investigation, an internal probe by the department’s Office of Professional Responsibility that looked at whether any of the prosecutors violated legal ethics rules. [read post]
19 Mar 2012, 5:02 pm by Caleb Mason
  It’s an incredible document that should make it onto Professional Responsibility and Advanced Crim Pro courses as soon as possible. [read post]
15 Mar 2012, 6:27 am by Mike Scarcella
The Justice Department hasn’t yet published its internal ethics investigation conducted by the Office of Professional Responsibility. [read post]
8 Mar 2012, 10:48 am by Mike Scarcella
Responding to questions about the botched prosecution of Stevens, the late Alaska senator, Holder said today the department’s Office of Professional Responsibility internal review of the case recommends sanctions. [read post]
1 Mar 2012, 8:47 am by Suzanne Ito
The senator then listed the various torture techniques that Bradbury ok’d and concluded his public rebuke by making clear how wrong Bradbury’s role in trying to legally justify torture was and said, “if OPR [Office of Professional Responsibility] questions your [conclusions] we should as well. [read post]
12 Jan 2012, 11:50 am
Within the Department of Justice, the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) is required to '[r]eceive, review, investigate and refer for appropriate action allegations of misconduct involving Department attorneys that relate to the exercise of their authority to . . . litigate. [read post]