When I raised the issue several months ago of whether we had ethical obligations to inanimate objects — including corporations — many people took the time to write to me and tell me that it didn’t ...

All lawyers understand that they have an ethical obligation to protect client confidential information from prying eyes, whether in a locked file cabinet, on a cloud storage device, or passing through ...

New Jersey lawyers have a longstanding ethical obligation to make reasonable efforts to prevent the inadvertent or unauthorized disclosure of information relating to the representation of a client.

The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade sent the issue of abortion policy back to individual states—which has already led to a flurry of laws in red states limiting or banning women from ...

The American Bar Association has issued new guidance clarifying that lawyers may be ethically required to provide former clients with important information rela ...

In October 2025, the ABA released Formal Opinion 518, providing guidance for attorneys serving as mediators. Here are some tips for lawyers navigating their ethical obligations when acting as ...

The landscape of legal practice has significantly changed due to the proliferation of third-party litigation funding, a financial mechanism that provides capital to plaintiffs, including patent owners ...

Brad has supervised a wide variety of e-discovery projects, including regulatory investigations, product liability litigation, settlement preparation, and records management. He has extensive ...

The first Interior secretary under the Trump administration did not comply with his ethics obligations, a watchdog found recently. Ryan Zinke—who served as secretary of the Interior from March 2017 ...

Penn State provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation US. Sitting barely 6 feet away from me, my patient yelled angrily, his face mask slipping to his upper lip: “No, I will not get ...

If science shows us the urgency for climate action, then ethics must show us the way, writes Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, WWF Global Climate and Energy Lead and COP20 President, in a new discussion paper ...