Sentences with phrase «lawyers about confidentiality»

It is also clear that teaching law students and lawyers about confidentiality under the conduct rules and about legal privilege is difficult and confusing given the current rules.

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President Trump's personal lawyer said he is worried about the confidentiality of roughly three clients since he branched off from the Trump Organization in 2017 — including the president and...

At a panel on Title IX, a lawyer warned about «the confidentiality trap.»

Then a bunch of lawyers get well paid fighting about it, then the case settles with a confidentiality agreement and no one knows how it turned out.

Questions about the confidentiality of a firm's e-mail might be another reason for a client to avoid a lawyer using one of these services.

Lawyers specifically can take advantage of the convenience of the cloud without worrying about breaching lawyer - client confidentiality or data privacy laws.

While intellectual property lawyers and those who handle corporate secrets probably understand the need for strict security measures, «the average lawyer probably spends far less time thinking about data and confidentiality risks,» Foster says.

Part of the lawyer's duty to a client is to educate the client about the nuances of the attorney - client relationship and the obligations of both lawyer and client to preserve that confidentiality.

When I suggested ten years ago that email would become the principal means by which clients and lawyers would communicate, many people suggested I was dangerous, that I was possibly insane, that I should not be allowed to speak in public, and that I certainly did not understand anything about security or confidentiality but [email] technology and many other emerging technologies have now firmly taken hold.

Lawyers are taught ad nauseam about Rule 1.6 and the duty of confidentiality, but those lessons have to be effectively communicated to legal support staff.

It could mean lawyers can wilfully disseminate client information for their own gain without violating client confidentiality rules, but also that lawyers can not blog about their practices and their successes without disclaimers.

Referring to an association as a «group» rather than a firm or partnership is not enough, the court held, to overcome the public's reasonable assumptions about issues like confidentiality among the group's lawyers.

If you have any questions about making your confidentiality agreement, we can connect you with a lawyer for quick answers or a document review.

All lawyers have a similar rule on confidentiality, but different states and practice areas have different rules about what to do in the event of a data breach — and what constitutes a breach in the first place.

Much has been written about the ethical duties of a lawyer regarding technology, a duty found in Rule 1.1 (competence), Rule 1.6 (confidentiality), Rule 1.5 (ethical billing) and Rules 5.1 and 5.3 (supervisory responsibilities).

Confidentiality in this context is properly understood in the broader sense of information that the lawyer is not at liberty to disclose and may include information about a client that is in fact in the public domain: see the decision of the House of Lords in Hilton v. BBE [2005] 1 WLR 567, para. 34.

The duty of confidentiality not only forbids revealing information, but also proscribes a lawyer's use of confidential information about a client to the disadvantage of that client.

Lawyers talk a lot about confidentiality and security, but only 25 percent of them use encryption when sending client e-mails.

concerns about security and confidentiality remain the greatest barrier to cloud adoption among small - firm lawyers.

A lawyer may have a duty of confidentiality with regard to information about his or her representation of a client, but because the information is not a part of a confidential communication, it does not benefit from the protection of the privilege.

Seriously, lawyers have to be extra vigilant about client confidentiality in the cellphone age.

Same set of concerns that we see confidentiality, security, all those things, people are very concerned about it, but when it comes to actually doing something about it, again, a very, very small percentage of lawyers actually take the standards precautionary measures that they're asked about.

Due to concerns about preserving client confidentiality, lawyers will look for cloud - based solutions with high security, with the goal being to improve the client experience and generate additional revenue through efficiencies from technology.

The confidentiality requirement means that the bar can not and will not discuss your inquiry with anyone except you, the lawyer about whom you inquire, people who might have information about your inquiry, and other persons within the attorney disciplinary system.

Just about 10 — 12 years ago, people were still using fax machines, advertising in the yellow pages was actually something people did, and «the Cloud» was seemingly off limits for lawyers due to security, privacy and confidentiality.

Lawyers, one of whose mantras is — or should be — confidentiality, will surely want to inform themselves about developments in this area.

The Code of Conduct contains this provision about «confidentiality» in Rule 2.03, at p. 28, that is beguiling in its simplicity: «A lawyer at all times must hold in strict confidence all information concerning the business and affairs of a client acquired in the course of the professional relationship and must not divulge any such information unless: (a) expressly or impliedly authorized by the client; (b) required by law or a court to do so; (c) required to deliver the information to the Society; or (d) otherwise permitted by this rule.»

Recognizing the boundaries of client confidentiality that must always be respected, I can't help but feel that there is more that can and should be done to harness that talent and bring to the forefront some of the compelling individual stories and successes that lawyers, law firms and their clients so frequently encounter, and to let prospective clients see their own issues and thought processes reflected in the discussions and materials about the law that we produce.

In its article «Professional Responsibilities when Using Technology», the Law Society of Upper Canada noted lawyers have an obligation to maintain confidentiality, i.e.: When using electronic means of communication (e.g. the Internet, cellular telephones, and facsimile machines) you must ensure communications with or about a client reflect the same care and concern for matters of privilege and confidentiality normally expected when using any other form of communication.

On his The Trial Warrior blog, Toronto lawyer Antonin Pribetic has a great post that contains sage advice on the dangers of breaching client confidentiality with a blog post — Too Much Information: Blogging about your client.

The opinion recommends, but does not require, that Virginia lawyers include such a disclaimer on their websites and cautions that lawyers may create a duty of confidentiality through sites that offer a «free evaluation» of a prospective client's case and invite web visitors to provide the lawyer with information about their situations.

One of the principal objections raised by the legal profession from the outset has been a concern about the lack of adequate protection for solicitor - client privilege and solicitor - client confidentiality given the potential under the Act and regulations for information held by lawyers to be shared with state agencies.

The legal blogosphere would benefit tremendously, I think, from a discussion about client confidentiality and the blogging lawyer.

Subject to confidentiality obligations (see the below FAQs), LAWPRO will gather general facts about the fraud and will talk the lawyer through the typical circumstances seen on similar frauds, including highlighting the red flags that can indicate that a matter is a fraud.