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Bricker Graydon LLP

Nonprofit Boards: What Should You Consider Before Joining?

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Perhaps a friend or business colleague has just contacted you to ask you to join a nonprofit board. You feel honored and excited to receive the invitation, and you have heard of this organization and believe that it has a...more

Goodell, DeVries, Leech & Dann, LLP

Attorneys Must Clarify Their Role to Clients

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Earlier this year, the ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility issued Formal Opinion 514 addressing a lawyer’s obligations for advising an organizational client when the advice might also be relied...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Getting the full picture - The emerging best interest and fiduciary duty patchwork

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On March 29, 2018, the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc. (the CFP Board) adopted a revised Code of Ethics (the Code) and Standards of Conduct (the Standards) that require a certified financial planner (CFP)...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

SEC Fines Adviser $20 Million Based on Conflicts

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Failure to disclose conflicts of interest and/or to comply with firm procedures are the predicates for a series of SEC enforcement actions involving regulated entities. The most recent example of these trends is an action...more

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