Legal Malpractice and Ethics, and Corporate Ethics, Resources Information

We do have an entire research sub web, which may have the legal or corporate ethics materials for which you are looking  --- if you are only looking for helpful entry cases or basic information on where to look further in the internet.  The articles and news on the subjects of attorney malpractice or corporate governance are elsewhere on this site.

Neoethics is the ethics section of e-Dicta, an internet ezine for the Trial, Torts, and Insurance Section of the American Bar Association.  Bucklin is the editor and also contributes ethics articles there from time to time.  Bucklin believes there is a new world of legal and corporate ethics.  "Neoethics" is used to emphasize that lawyers and corporate counsel must look beyond traditional solutions to ethics problems. Neoethics as a new word exists because the public and government now demand that the rules governing lawyers respond to the public perception of the moral choices lawyers and corporate officers should make. These are new requirements for lawyers and corporate officers - to act in accordance with a public morality. The results are: a new combined legal/social ethical framework in which lawyers must work, a new way in which lawyers must perceive ethics as a subject of study, and new ethics rules and refinements that respond to this framework and perception. We call this new paradigm --- neoethics

If you are a corporate general counsel, you may want to suggest to your company management that we be called upon for an ethics audit. You may want assurance that the ethics culture will pass muster if the government is considering possible charges. The company and its top management now must have implement what the government prosecutor and judge call effective measures meeting the standards of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines.  Certainly, using an outside consultant will allow you to say you are fulfilling the mandate of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for simply monitoring the effectiveness of your ethics compliance program. However, in choosing your outside consultant organization you may want to consider experts that have the prestige and reputation that allows you suggest, with pride, to your authorizing authority that they do the corporate ethics audit for your review as corporate general counsel. If such experts do the audit, you can tell outsiders that you had an effective active audit, not just a passive monitoring of your system. Corporate-ethics.US is a corporate ethics round table group, developed by Bucklin, which provides high credibility, recognized experts (PhD and JD quality) for corporate ethics seminars and training or business ethics culture-installation projects. Bucklin provides the core expertise and project management of the business ethics and corporate governance services provided by Corporate-Ethics. US.  Talk to us; you may have found, right now, an impressive group of experts available for the task.

Health Law and Policy Abstracts has a downloadable version of one of Bucklin's ethics papers, which was original published in the North Dakota Law Review in 2002 .  It still remains as the best review of the subject for medical organ transplant organizations.

For a listing of Bucklin as an ethics or legal malpractice expert witness in Texas, Montana, Dakota, see  the Rominger Legal Center which lists Bucklin for nation-wide expert witness work for attorneys in legal negligence cases.   although listing shows under the Rominger Category of  "LEGAL MALPRACTICE - TEXAS, NORTH DAKOTA, COLORADO, MINNESOTA, SOUTH DAKOTA, MONTANA, ARIZONA, OKLAHOMA, WYOMING, NEW MEXICO. See LawyerTree.com, additionally,  for a Listing of Bucklin as a legal compliance and ethics officer  or Expert Pages for a listing of  Leonard Bucklin as an expert witness on malpractice.

Various types of experts who do business in Texas are listed at http://www.lawyerscenter.com/texas/experts/   and  Texexperts, a research point for listing Texas experts, for the use of attorneys.  This includes Bucklin as an expert witness in Texas on Legal Malpractice.  The site is Texas Lawyers Center Online.  It has several types of links and helpful tools for Texas Lawyers.

The Open Directory project has Bucklin Of Counsel or Leonard Bucklin listed for professional malpractice cases, and seminar education, although it mistakenly lists only a few of the states in which BOC is available for service.