New York County Lawyers
Association Formal Opinion 748 (2015) requires disclaimers in LinkedIn profiles.
Miami's Jacobowitz highlighted some of the legal ethics obligations, noting that Pennsylvania Bar
Association Formal Opinion 201 - 300 provides that competence includes having «a basic knowledge of how social media websites work.»
Not exact matches
Luckily — from the perspective of people who like a bit of convenience, even if they're not terribly concerned about data privacy — a string of legal ethical
opinions, including
Formal Opinion No. 99 - 413 of the American Bar Association and the Law Society of BC's April 1998 opinion on the transmission of confidential information over the internet, seemed to offer near - absolution to lawyers from concern over unencrypted
Opinion No. 99 - 413 of the American Bar
Association and the Law Society of BC's April 1998
opinion on the transmission of confidential information over the internet, seemed to offer near - absolution to lawyers from concern over unencrypted
opinion on the transmission of confidential information over the internet, seemed to offer near - absolution to lawyers from concern over unencrypted email.
In August 2011, the American Bar
Association Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility issued
Formal Opinion 11 - 459 relating to a lawyer's duty to protect the confidentiality of electronic communications with clients.
Pennsylvania Bar
Association Committee on Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility
Formal Opinion 2011 - 200 recognes the dramatic rise in the use of technology in the profession and lists in detail the legal ethics implications of technology.
See
Association of the Bar of the City of New York,
Formal Opinion 2001 - 1 (concluding that information submitted by e-mail to a law firm via the firm's website was unsolicited; simply including an e-mail link on a law firm's website does not amount to an invitation to transmit confidential information); Iowa State Bar
Association Op. 07 - 02 (evaluated whether the lawyer said or did anything to prompt the potential client to provide confidential information to the lawyer, noting that a lawyer's «request to contact» is not the same as a request for information); Massachusetts Bar
Association Op. 07 - 01 (concluding that a website is a marketing tool by which a prospective client may identify which lawyers have the expertise necessary to handle a particular case, and that the publication of such information could reasonably lead a prospective client to conclude that, when sending information to the firm via an e-mail link, the firm and its lawyers have implicitly «agreed to consider» whether to form an attorney - client relationship.
ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility
Formal Opinion 10 - 547: Lawyer Websites September 30 By The American Bar
Association «Many lawyers and law firms have established websites as a means of communicating with the public.
Draft ethics
opinions on cloud computing and other technologies, such as the North Carolina Bar
Association's Proposed
Formal Ethics
Opinion on cloud computing, reference the need for a broadly recognized set of best practices relating to technology; prior to ILTSO, no such document existed.
Additional examples of
opinions covering cloud services are Pennsylvania Bar
Association, Committee on Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility,
Formal Opinion 2011 - 200, «Ethical Obligations for Attorneys Using Cloud Computing / Software as a Service While Fulfilling the Duties of Confidentiality and Preservation of Client Property» (November, 2011) and North Carolina State Bar 2011
Formal Ethics
Opinion 6, «Subscribing to Software as a Service While Fulfilling the Duties of Confidentiality and Preservation of Client Property» (January, 2012).
The New York City Bar
Association's
Formal Opinion 2012 - 2 and the New York County Lawyers»
Association Committee on Professional Ethics
Formal Opinion 743 addressed this issue, along with citing a number of actual cases where it has been a problem.
The American Bar
Association recently published
Formal Opinion 476, entitled «Confidentiality Issues when Moving to Withdraw for Nonpayment of Fees in Civil Litigation.»
Instead, this post focuses on three recent documents, ranging from
formal opinions to draft issue papers, issued by three very prominent Bar
associations — the American Bar
Association (ABA), the New York State Bar
Association (NYSBA), and the State Bar of California (CA Bar).
Judge's Use of Electronic Social Networking Media (American Bar
Association Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility,
Formal Opinion 462) February / février 2013.
The American Bar
Association's Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility released its
Formal Opinion 11 - 459 in August 2011 regarding a lawyers» «Duty to Protect the Confidentiality of E-mail Communications with One's Client.»
The Pennsylvania Bar
Association's Committee On Legal Ethics And Professional Responsibility has just released
Formal Opinion 2011 - 200, Ethical Obligations For Attorneys Using Cloud Computing / Software As A Service While Fulfilling The Duties Of Confidentiality And Preservation Of Client Property