In a legislative session that should focus on the state’s most pressing problems, Louisiana lawmakers are pursuing a wide-ranging rewrite of the state’s ethics code that would whittle away at the ...

Have you ever felt frustrated by “legalese,” the use of highly technical, complex, archaic, and sometimes redundant terms in legal documents such as statutes, contracts, policies, and codes of ethics?

FEBRUARY. WELL, HAPPENING RIGHT NOW. LAWMAKERS ARE IN BATON ROUGE WITH A BUSY DAY IN THE LEGISLATIVE SESSION AND ONE BILL BEING CONSIDERED COULD CHANGE ETHICS LAWS AND ALSO OFFER MORE PROTECTIONS FOR ...

The recent BBC Panorama episode on solicitors acting for the Post Office highlighted how some lawyers can lose sight of their role to uphold the rule of law and the public interest.

NPR's A Martinez talks to Amanda Frost, a law professor at the University of Virginia, who testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Supreme Court ethics. The Supreme Court has adopted its ...

The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it had issued an ethics code for the justices after a series of revelations about undisclosed property deals and gifts intensified pressure on the court to ...

TOPSHOT - Justices of the US Supreme Court pose for their official photo at the Supreme Court in Washington, DC on October 7, 2022. - (Seated from left) Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Associate ...

Independent Sector, a coalition of charities and foundations, has issued its first official model code of ethics for nonprofit groups to follow, the initial step in what the organization’s president ...

TOWN OF ULSTER, N.Y. — Proposed revisions to the town’s Ethics Law came in for criticism during a public hearing on Thursday. Current Ethics Board member John Iannotti cited the Talking Heads song ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A bipartisan bill to boost transparency and make sure incoming presidents stick to an ethics plan was so uncontroversial that it ...

Town officials have scheduled a public hearing for an ethics law overhaul at 7:10 p.m. on March 5 in the Town Hall on Town Hall Drive. “I wanted to make changes because that ...