Attorneys owe a fiduciary duty of loyalty and good faith to their clients, among others, which requires them to act solely for the client’s benefit. If an attorney violates this duty by engaging in ...

More than any time in recent history, ethics in science now gets as much—maybe more—media attention than results. Although most scientists always focused on ethical behavior, the community continues ...

Consequence ethics is a philosophical approach to morality by which the results of an action determine the potential good of the action. Consequence ethics suggests weighing the consequences of ...

In a keynote delivered at the 2025 Lawyers Weekly Partner Summit, the Federal Court of Australia’s Justice Michael Lee encouraged the lawyers in attendance to reflect on whether the legal profession ...

I will be talking to legal professionals, regulators and stakeholders about the future of professional ethics today at the Westminster Legal Policy Forum. Professional ethics is one of the pillars of ...

Is professional ethics an endangered species? That was the focus of my keynote address at the Pennsylvania Association for College Admission Counseling conference last month in Hershey, Pa. The speech ...

“Ethics” has become an increasingly urgent topic of discussion in the technology industry, from AI ethics to the ethics of robotics, virtual reality, and the ethics of our digital media culture. But ...