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1. A City Attorney Wearing Too Many Ethics Hats

   ... overseen by the city attorney. I wrote at length about the ethics reforms in two blog posts this January ( 1   2 ... Finally, according to the only thing I could find about the ethics commission (p. 33) on the Houston website, "it may request ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

2. Lobbying Central to Upcoming HBO Series

   ... on his 2004 play, Sonny's Last Shot. The story is about "a down-home, honest kind of Texas lawmaker who finds himself embroiled ... For a preview, check out City Ethics blog posts about situations in Texas at the state and local levels. Robert Wechsler ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

3. What Can Ethics Officials Do Outside Their Jurisdiction?

   ... down the road a couple of years. I look forward to writing about the first time de Blasio gets on a council member's case about earmark transparency. There is another problem here. As the ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

4. Poor Draftmanship and Poor Ethics

   ... rewrote this post after Mark Davies set me straight about the state law on which disclosure forms an official must file. Poor ... to file disclosure forms that include information about the spouse, P-E-R-I-O-D." Robert Gottlieb, a Suffolk lawyer who ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

5. A City Pension Board Attorney's Fiefdom

   Body:  I talk a lot about the importance of independent ethics commissions. But independence is not ... However, in October, after the Free Press started reporting about the lack of ethics on the boards, the general employees board did pass ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

6. Irresponsible Handling of a Possible Conflict by Four Local Government Officials

   ... her husband's marketing operation there. She also told him about a HUD grant program. The developer met with the director of the Community Development Department about the possibility of getting a grant to help raze one building and gut the ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

7. An Advisory Opinion Gambit in the Big Apple

   ... of the conduct. Finally, refuse to provide information about the extent of the conduct, so that no one can provide hard evidence that ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

8. Winter Reading: Lawyers As (Ethics) Leaders

   ... in my legal ethics course or my administrative law course, about the greater ethical obligations of lawyers working in or for a ... 'the soft stuff is the hard stuff.'" Rhode discusses Harvard Business School professor Chris Argyris' distinction between ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

9. Government Ethics in the City of Albany, NY: Gifts and a Draft Ethics Code

   Body:  There's a lot of talk about the lack of government ethics in Albany, New York State's capital, but not much about the state of government ethics in the city of Albany itself. In July, the ... why that would be newsworthy.'' He was talking about attending fundraising events sponsored by the developer. The mayor ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

10. Ethics Attacks and Ethics Reform

    ... Campaign Legal Center blog post yesterday about the upside of election time ethics attacks on opponents. "Current ... as a good development is that, "if a politician is concerned about being accused of an ethics violation, he (or she) will do a better job at ...

    Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

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