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Ethics in the Law
Kathleen Ford Bay (kbay@hwlaw.com)
Ethics is broad topic and one that needs to be narrowed in order to be of use to the readers. Which ethical issues relating to the lawyer's representation of the nonprofit should the Board and staff of the nonprofit entity be most concerned about? Which ethical issues are likely to have an effect, an impact, on the nonprofit entity itself and the way in which the Board, managers, and employees of non-profits conduct themselves day-to-day? The answer is obvious - who's the client of the lawyer and to whom is the lawyer to report and what does the lawyer do when presented with circumstances that could affect the entity in an adverse fashion? PDF (13 pages, 132KB)
Waking
the Captain
Robert Floyd (raf@stratleader.com)
On Valentine's Day 2002, a woman named Sherron Watkins testified before the United States Congress that she had warned former Enron Chairman and CEO Kenneth Lay in a seven-page memo that she was worried that "we will implode in a wave of accounting scandals."
A scant three months later, another courageous woman testified before Congress about a memo that she had sent to her boss. In FBI Special Agent Coleen Rowley's own words: "To get to the point, I have deep concerns that a delicate and subtle shading/skewing of facts by you and others at the highest levels of FBI management has occurred and is occurring." PDF (5 pages, 95KB)
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