Sentences with phrase «supervise nonlawyer»

Besides the lawyer's own action, the lawyer must supervise nonlawyer personnel who use computers and computerized equipment to protect confidential matters.

As far back as 2013, Peter Geraghty (Director of the ETHICSearch, ABA Center for Professional Responsibility) and Susan J. Michmerhuizen (ETHICSearch Research Counsel) wrote an article for Your ABA Enews called Duty to Supervise Nonlawyers: Ignorance is Not Bliss.Although the article focused on issues with paralegals and support staff, I would suggest that computers also qualify as nonlawyers and the concerns mentioned in the article should apply to them and the technical experts who use them as well

Not exact matches

This notion of a niche offering by nonlawyer service providers for otherwise pro se clients provides opportunities for LLLTs and firms to leverage the unique offering because the LLLT does not need to be supervised like a paralegal.