A series of high-profile challenges to ethical standards by congressional leaders and administration officials has led watchdog groups to complain about a general loosening of standards for public ...

With the recent news about The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints (“Church”) and Ensign Peak Advisors (the Church’s affiliated investment advisor) settling with the SEC over financial ...

The Virginia State Bar’s proposed ethics opinion that lawyers should refrain from having sexual relationships with clients does not go far enough – or it goes too far, according to attorneys ...

On July 29, the American Bar Association (ABA) weighed in for the first time on the ethical implications of generative AI (GenAI) use with the release of Formal Opinion 512. The 15-page document ...

In August, the House of Delegates passed changes to the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct modernizing the rules as they relate to the oft-confusing issues of lawyer marketing, advertising and ...

The Professional Ethics Committee for the State Bar of Texas found in an ethics opinion that a Texas lawyer practicing in Texas cannot join a Washington, D.C., firm with a non-lawyer partner, even if ...

AUSTIN — The Texas Supreme Court on Friday dismissed an ethics complaint against Attorney General Ken Paxton, ending a nearly three-year battle over whether the state’s top legal officer should be ...

The Florida Senate unanimously approved legislation that would bar the Florida Commission on Ethics from considering any ethics complaints based on "hearsay." You might think that's a good thing, but ...

This week, three civil society groups and 70 prominent lawyers, law professors and judges filed a complaint with The Florida Bar against U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi. Photo by Matias J. Ocner ...