We are happy to work with you to ensure that your use of our services meets the requirements and recommendations of your state ethics
opinions on cloud computing, compiled by the American Bar Association Law Practice Division.
Several state bar associations provide ethical
opinions on cloud computing.
The American Bar Association has neatly listed out the ethical
opinions on cloud computing from several state bar associations on its website.
To read summaries of the New Hampshire opinion and other jurisdiction's ethics
opinions on cloud computing and the use of legal management software in your law practice, check out the American Bar Association's useful comparative chart, which can be found here.
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.
(Edit: As some commenters have mentioned, 18 states now have ethics
opinions on cloud computing.)
In between the Model Rule comment on competence and the detailed ethics
opinions on cloud computing and metadata falls the idea that attorneys must possess general technological competence in order to meet their ethical obligations — not because the rules have changed but because the world has changed.
A scant 15 states have drafted formal ethics
opinions on cloud computing.
After nearly two years since publishing its first proposal on the topic, the North Carolina State Bar has adopted its Formal Ethics
Opinion on cloud computing (thanks to Steph Kimbro for the heads up).
Not exact matches
An ever - increasing body of ethics
opinions and reports
on the suitability of
cloud computing for lawyers aim to provide guidance that may appear deceptively straightforward.
There are now multiple ethics
opinions on attorneys» use of
cloud computing services like online file storage and software as a service (SaaS).
CSA conducted a survey of industry experts to gather professional
opinions on the greatest security issues involving
cloud computing.
Like the Law Society of British Columbia's Report
on Cloud Computing, the final NC Ethics opinion makes it clear that, while cloud computing can be an acceptable computing platform for the storage and transmission of confidential client data, the selection of a particular cloud computing provider should be prefaced with a reasonable level of due dilig
Cloud Computing, the final NC Ethics
opinion makes it clear that, while
cloud computing can be an acceptable computing platform for the storage and transmission of confidential client data, the selection of a particular cloud computing provider should be prefaced with a reasonable level of due dilig
cloud computing can be an acceptable
computing platform for the storage and transmission of confidential client data, the selection of a particular
cloud computing provider should be prefaced with a reasonable level of due dilig
cloud computing provider should be prefaced with a reasonable level of due diligence.
The ABA Commission
on Ethics 20/20 proposal and the NC State Bar proposed ethics
opinion both represent important steps forward in clarifying the ethics of
cloud computing, and it's encouraging to see both organizations take forward - looking positions
on the use of technology in law firms.
Acknowledging that
cloud computing is a form of outsourcing, the Commission invites feedback
on the extent to which the procedures outlined in ABA Formal Ethics
Opinion 08 - 451 (describing a lawyer's obligations when outsourcing work to lawyers and non-lawyers) should apply in the
cloud computing context and seeks input into whether
cloud computing should affect the Commission's ongoing examination of possible amendments to Model Rule of Professional Conduct 5.3.
The North Carolina State Bar has revisited its proposed Formal Ethics
Opinion (FEO)
on cloud computing and addressed many of the concerns the legal
cloud computing community had previously expressed.