Ask the Board: "How do you ensure high ethical standards among your staff?"
John Guttmann
June 25, 2018
The most important thing is to make sure that high ethical standards are a part of the culture of your business. There also needs to be an openness so that if there is an ethical question, people are comfortable raising it, and that they know they should raise it. With new employees, the importance of ethical behavior and ethical thinking is part of their orientation. In our performance evaluation process, which we do twice a year, ethical topics are included in the things we touch upon. We will as questions about: What has happened in your own personal practice? Were there any issues you feel needs to be discussed? Are there are any concerns in your work with others at the firm? So it becomes part of the way we do business. By emphasizing it in that context brings home the fact that the leadership of the firm places premium on ethical behavior and all else.
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John Guttmann
Beveridge & Diamond
John Guttman is a corporate litigator with nearly 40 years of experience, focused on toxic tort, environmental and natural resource damages cases. His practice includes class actions. Beveridge & Diamond is the largest U.S. law firm that concentrates
on environmental and related work.