In Connecticut the answer is Connecticut's Rules of Professional Conduct, which are rules of court adopted by the Judges of the Superior Court. Each state has its own legal ethics rules most of which are variations on the American Bar Association's Model Rules of Professional Conduct. The ABA Model Rules are not binding.
The Rules of Professional Conduct describe the basic obligations lawyers owe to clients, third parties, to courts and to the profession. There can be tension and conflict among those obligations. Part of the challenge is to identify and resolve those conflicts in a professionally responsible manner.
Some legal ethics codes focus on the behavior of important key officials in business and government. The primary goal of such codes is to guard against conflicts of interest and protect the integrity of related financial markets.
Codes that emphasize preventing unlawful behavior by increasing control and by penalizing wrongdoers. They are based on avoiding legal punishment.
Mortimer D. Schwartz has written: 'Problems in legal ethics' -- subject(s): Cases, Legal ethics 'Problems in legal ethics' -- subject(s): Cases, Legal ethics 'Problems in legal ethics' -- subject(s): Cases, Legal ethics
No, corporate codes of ethics are typically written by a corporation's board of directors with input from human resources and legal departments. Corporate codes of ethics are, however, heavily informed by government decisions - laws, policies, and court rulings - in order to ensure that the company is promoting compliance as an ethical principle.
The link provides a rather good list of links to various codes of ethics.
ACA and NAADAC codes of ethics. Identify similarities and differences
Personal and legal ethics are distinct. Legal ethics may require conduct inconsistent with one's personal ethics, which is the basis for a good deal of the criticism of the legal profession. However, it is understandable, or should be, that there is a distinction between personal and legal ethics. Legal ethics involves obligations owed to clients, third parties, courts and to the profession itself. In that sense one's personal ethics may be simpler to apply as there are fewer variables when one is acting in one's personal capacity than there are when one is acting as a lawyer.
Corporate codes of ethics are not just for show but they do make for good public and private relations. The corporate code of ethics is not always followed through from the top down.
They are very important.As a legal practitioner you have to have excellent ethics so that you do not compromise your ethical beliefs.
There are various ways that scientists deal with ethics in their jobs. For example, they might have to go before an ethics board to get approval for a study. They also attempt to ensure that what they do is legal and that it does not violate their own personal moral codes.
Michael L. Temin has written: 'Pennsylvania ethics handbook' -- subject(s): Discipline, Lawyers, Legal ethics 'Pennsylvania ethics handbook' -- subject(s): Discipline, Lawyers, Legal ethics
There is no such thing.
William E. Hornsby has written: 'Marketing and legal ethics' -- subject(s): Advertising, Lawyers, Legal ethics, Legal services, Marketing