Search for: "Conflict of Interest - Government Lawyers" Results 581 - 600 of 5,213
Sort by Relevance | Sort by Date
RSS Subscribe: 20 results | 100 results
19 Jan 2023, 8:00 am by Guest Blogger
 Today, liberals and progressives seem to have largely forgotten that battles over how we organize and govern economic life are conflicts with constitutional stakes. [read post]
18 Jan 2023, 5:00 am by Guest Author
One could ask: What does, could, and should affected with the public interest mean for infrastructure/NPUs? [read post]
Under DOJ’s rules, a special counsel is supposed to be appointed if there are grounds for a criminal investigation, and if it would create a conflict of interest for the investigation to be handled by the lawyers who usually would handle the case within the Department. [read post]
17 Jan 2023, 6:11 am by Dan Bressler
” “Andrew Dean, co-chief of the SEC enforcement division’s asset management unit, said: ‘Investment professionals must be forthcoming about any conflicts of interest they may have with the companies in which they invest client funds, including situations involving favours or assistance to family members… Investors must be able to know that the advice they receive is free of undisclosed conflicts, regardless of whether the conflict is… [read post]
16 Jan 2023, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
Within the first two days after the North Korean invasion, members of Congress raised the question of whether the Korean conflict was a civil war, whether U.S. interests were at stake, and whether Truman could act without Congressional authorization. [read post]
16 Jan 2023, 6:11 am by Dan Bressler
It was his choice to agree to act for Mr Ball in a personal capacity in his criminal case, where the conflict (or risk of conflict) should have been apparent to him.'” “Federal prosecutor reviewing classified documents found at former Biden office” — “A number of government documents marked classified were found this fall by lawyers for President Joe Biden in a closet in a Washington, D.C., office used by Biden when he was a… [read post]
15 Jan 2023, 8:59 pm by Bill Henderson
Cf Post 252 (review of Sam Ardery’s book on conflict, lawyers’ stock-in-trade, with internal conflict being the most important to honestly acknowledge). [read post]
15 Jan 2023, 2:35 pm by Rob Robinson
”[16] DOJ’s emphasis on individual responsibility—no matter how senior the executive—could make individuals reluctant to come forward with information.[17] The potential for conflicts of interest has increased,[18] so companies will need to make an early assessment of whether a conflict of interest exists with respect to the law firm representing the company and the individual(s) and in-house counsel. [read post]
12 Jan 2023, 1:32 pm by Benjamin Wittes
Garland, in his statement, did not acknowledge the conflict of interest, but he did invoke the “extraordinary circumstances” language to get to the same place. [read post]
12 Jan 2023, 6:07 am by Dan Bressler
Office of Government Ethics’ threshold for recusal is $15,000, which his holdings remain below. [read post]
12 Jan 2023, 3:00 am by jonathanturley
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at The George Washington University. [read post]
11 Jan 2023, 6:06 am by Alison Siegler
The best practice is to have a duty federal defender or CJA lawyer actively represent arrestees at every Initial Appearance, and for judges to secure additional CJA lawyers whenever the federal defender's office is conflicted out. [read post]
10 Jan 2023, 2:59 am by Amanda Sanders (UK)
  However, there may be changes of interest for employment lawyers over the coming year. [read post]
9 Jan 2023, 4:01 am by Guest Blogger
For example, in situations in which “a lawyer is asked to advise the client in respect of a matter in which the lawyer, the lawyer’s partner or associate or a family member has a material direct or indirect financial interest,” the lawyer’s own interests can impair representation loyalty.[7] Nevertheless, in clear-cut matters such as real-estate transactions, it is unlikely that family sensitivities will pose a… [read post]
9 Jan 2023, 3:58 am by Dan Harris
Though the AmCham is these days somewhat less of an unmitigated China chearleader, Beijing still expects AmCham to serve China’s interests. [read post]
8 Jan 2023, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
Among the central notions found in that perhaps cryptic document is that “one people” has a right to self-government, i.e., government “by consent of the governed. [read post]
5 Jan 2023, 6:51 am by Peter J. Eyre and M.Yuan Zhou
Crowell & Moring’s “Fastest 5 Minutes” is a biweekly podcast that provides a brief summary of significant government contracts legal and regulatory developments that no government contracts lawyer or executive should be without. [read post]