Whistleblowing

Some people would make the argument that Allison’s actions were unethical. The first argument that could be made is that Allison violated section 1.06 (a) of the Code of Ethics. Here,

The distinction between the two cases is that Lane tried to conceal his misconduct. He tries to deceive the court and then choosing to not respond to the court. I agree with the courts reasoning because it will teach the person their misconduct is unacceptable and if it happens again they will barred from practicing law.

Similarly, the Supreme Court case Romano v. Harrington contested the right to free speech in a public school setting. It involved high school English teacher Michael Romano, who was the faculty advisor of the school’s extracurricular student-published newspaper Crow’s Nest. A student, not part of the newspaper’s student staff, came to him to publish an article in protest of the proposed Martin Luther King Jr. The article was very provocative, so Romano helped him to soften it, but he did not attempt to censor it. Almost directly following this, due to his insensitivity to the racial tension present in their school, Romano was removed from his position as faculty advisor. He did retain his teaching job, though. Romano argued that the principal

Whistle blowing does take courage. There is the risk of being bullied or harassed as a result, but anyone who whistle blows has the right to protection from the person they have raised concerns about. If you suffer as a result of a whistle blowing incident the UK Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 offers legal protection.

Also in section 301 of The SOX Act, internal reporting of potential financial misappropriation of funds via anonymous whistleblowers is mandated. SOX 301 requires that audit committees of issuers listed on U.S. exchanges “establish procedures” for (i) receipt, retention, and treatment of complaints regarding accounting, internal accounting controls, or auditing matters; and (ii) confidential, anonymous submission by employees of concerns regarding questionable accounting or auditing matters.  SOX 301 was codified as

Schenck was charged for his obstruction of recruitment due to the Conspiracy Act. He sued, saying that his First Amendment free speech was violated.

In addition, whistleblowers should be portrayed as being good in order for society to begin seeing them in a positive way. Furthermore, the government should make this type of crimes a public matter. Allowing the public to be able to see all charges and outcome regarding these cases could bring out other wrongdoings in other organizations. The government should also impose greater punishment such as jail time for these types of crimes rather than imposing fines that they are able to

He was disbarred by the Supreme Judicial Court for multiple ethical violations that spanned over the course of numerous years. His ethical violations did not involve only his clients (there were many of them), but it also involved his law partners and the Board of Bar Overseers who were investigating him. His ethical violations ranged from lying, misleading, larceny, falsifying documents, procrastination, and his own failures to appear in court.

On August 2, 2016, the Office of the Bar Counsel received a complaint from Edilson Menezes regarding Attorney Sandra F. Bloomenthal. Menezes’ complaint alleged that he hired Bloomenthal to appeal his criminal conviction; however she failed to take the necessary steps to file an appeal, communicate with her now former client, and return a copy of his file or give any type of refund. Bloomenthal has potentially violated Mass.R.Prof.C. 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, and 1.4.

violating the Simon Act. He was tried and found guilty by the Nebraska supreme court by a vote

The $15 million wrongful termination lawsuit (Oehler v. The State Bar of California et al., case number BC610699, in the Superior Court of the State of California, County of Los Angeles) that hit the State Bar of California echoes allegations made by the bar’s former executive director pointing towards rampant ethical violations. Plaintiff Sonja Oehler’s LinkedIn profile lists her previous title as the bar’s former administrative specialist. Rather than being let go from her position for a lack of ability or dedication to the job or a necessary reduction in staff, Oehler alleges that she was fired from her job because she knew too much about rampant ethical violations: deceit, deception, incompetence and falsification of issues on the part

In improving a publicly traded company’s bottom line Sarbanes-Oxley can be a positive factor. By introducing ethics codes and internal controls and building an ethical mind-set in a

The court case started because of a guy named J.M. Near, a resident of Minnesota, and the owner of the newspapers called “The Saturday Press”. In one of his issues of the Saturday Press, he put in his newspaper that jews were out there breaking laws while the police just sat back and did nothing about it. He mentioned a few officer and one of the officers that he mentioned was offended and arrested Near. The state and the police officer believed that what Near wrote in his newspaper was racist, bias, repulsive and harmful towards others.

Another interesting case involving Bowler pertains to Union members and extortion. According to the Boston Globe “Prosecutors alleged in a 2015 indictment that the five Teamsters members attempted to extort jobs from the ‘Top Chef’ show in June 2014 by threatening to disrupt the show’s filming at a restaurant in Milton.” The Globe goes on to further explain that the union members believed that they were using their constitutional rights to “picket,” Bowler did not see it that way. Bowler stated that the jury will ultimately decide the case but the indictment “depicts conduct in the form of threats used to exact payments in the form of wages for unwanted, unnecessary, and superfluous services that is a violation of the Hobbs Act.” The paper

The development of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) was a result of public company scandals. The Enron and Worldcom scandals, for example, helped investor confidence in entities traded on the public markets weaken during 2001 and 2002. Congress was quick to respond to the political crisis and "enacted the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, which was signed into law by President Bush on July 30" (Edward Jones, 1), to restore investor confidence. In reference to SOX, penalties would be issued to non-ethical or non-law-abiding public companies and their executives, directors, auditors, attorneys, and securities analysts (1). SOX significantly transformed the procedures in which public companies handle internal