Legal Ethics in Agricultural-Agribusiness Accountability

Kate Moore

Dunn Carney Allen Higgins & Tongue, LLP

What Are Our Ethical Obligationsor Responsibilities?

• Ethics rules• Environmental ethics

Rules of Professional Conduct

• Client leads the way• Can’t let client break the law• Avoid conflicts• Attorney as advisor• Zealous advocate

Environmental Ethics

• Obligation to future generations• Responsibility towards the natural

world• Precautionary principleWhere is common ground? What is the law?

Challenges

• Different perspectives• Economics• Not imposing your own

agenda on your client

Opportunities

• Creating win-win situations • Private agreements• Market-based approaches• Alternative production

Private Agreements

• Settlement agreements• Landowner agreements• Conservation easements

Market-basedApproaches

• In-stream water rights• Buy-out/retirement of

grazing permits• Carbon offsets• Developing renewable

power projects

Thank you

Kate L. Moore

Dunn Carney Allen Higgins & Tongue, LLP

kmoore@dunncarney.com

www.dunncarney.com

http://dunncarneynaturalresourcesupdates.com/