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1.7-1.11: Conflicts of Interest, including restrictions on attorneys arising from current clients, [9] [10] former clients, [11] prior work as a government employee or judge, [12] [13] and association with law firms.
The American Bar Association Model Code of Professional Responsibility, created by the American Bar Association (ABA) in 1969, was a set of professional standards designed to establish the minimum baseline of legal ethics and professional responsibility generally required of lawyers in the United States.
The American Bar Association (ABA) is a voluntary bar association of lawyers and law students; it is not specific to any jurisdiction in the United States. Founded in 1878, [2] the ABA's stated activities are the setting of academic standards for law schools, and the formulation of model ethical codes related to the legal profession.
An ethics committee, composed of federal judges, recently circulated a draft opinion concluding that it would be unethical for a federal judge to be a member of the Federalist Society for Law and ...
A bar association is a professional association of lawyers as generally organized in countries following the Anglo-American types of jurisprudence. [1] The word bar is derived from the old English/European custom of using a physical railing to separate the area in which court business is done from the viewing area for the general public.
The National Judicial College (NJC) was established in 1963 [1] as an entity within the American Bar Association. The NJC moved to the campus of the University of Nevada, Reno in 1964 [2] and became a Nevada not-for-profit (501)(c)(3) educational corporation in 1977. [3] The NJC provides judicial training to judges from across the United States.
The Oregon State Bar (OSB) is a public corporation and instrumentality of the Oregon Judicial Department in the U.S. state of Oregon.Founded in 1890 as the private Oregon Bar Association, it became a public entity in 1935 that regulates the legal profession.
The American Law Institute's headquarters in Philadelphia. The movement that led to ALI's founding began in 1888. Law professor Henry Taylor Terry, then teaching in Japan, wrote that year to the American Bar Association (ABA) to recommend that it should solicit proposals for a "complete scientific arrangement of the whole body” of the law, and in response, the ABA set up a special committee ...