Sentences with phrase «technology competence»

Our topic today is going to be the emerging duty of technology competence for lawyers.

I have been tracking here the states that have adopted the ethical duty of technology competence for lawyers.

In any event, you can read my full list of states that have adopted the duty of technology competence in this post.

There have been several developments on this front, including news over the past week of two more initiatives that should further promote technology competence among legal professionals.

The past week brought news of two more initiatives that should further promote technology competence among legal professionals.

I've written any number of posts about the duty of technology competence under ABA Model Rule 1.1, Comment 8, and I've been tracking its adoption by the states.

Technology competence now needs to be at the forefront of practitioner's minds.

This live webinar will review what the duty of technology competence means in practical terms for law firms and in - house counsel.

The past year has seen a growing number of states adopt the ethical duty of technology competence for lawyers.

But it was probably the most explicit opinion that I've seen so far that simply talked about the implications of this duty of technology competence for a particular area of law.

Lawyer and veteran legal journalist Robert Ambrogi will be joined by Mark Noel and Niki Nelson from Catalyst's professional services team to discuss the key issues and what people need to know about technology competence and e-discovery.

This is the topic of my column this week at Above the Law: OK, We Get Technology Competence, But How Do We Get Technologically Competent?

Rest assured, that's a mistake, especially now that 31 states require lawyers to maintain technology competence as part of their ethical obligations, of which New York is one.

But being busy is no longer an excuse for not using technology at your law firm now that the majority of the states have adopted the amendment of Rule 1.1 requiring lawyers to maintain technology competence.

A general technology competence requirement appears in the ethics rules of only 26 U.S. states.

To widen the range of technologies and competences that are available for Swedish researchers within Science for Life Laboratory (SciLifeLab) the board has decided to integrate technology competences from other Swedish universities into the center.

A comparison of teacher education faculty and preservice teacher technology competence.

Bernhard Hoffschmidt he leads the Working Group on Solar Thermal Power Stations of the North - Rhine Westphalian Power Station Technology Competence Network.

On Friday November 13, 2015, while two more states adopted a duty of technology competence into their codes — and while Canadian law societies maintained unanimous silence on such requirements for lawyers — British Columbia's Office of the Information & Privacy Commissioner and Representative for Children and Youth, released Cyberbullying: Empowering Children and Youth To Be Safe Online and Responsible Digital Citizens.

My post yesterday about Kentucky having adopted the duty of technology competence brought an email alerting me that Indiana had also adopted the duty, bringing the total to 31.

That duty of technology competence extends to e-discovery, the opinion concludes, and because e-discovery can come up in almost every litigation matter, attorneys should have at least a baseline understanding of it.

I do want to empathize that the ethics opinions say that the lawyer needs to make the assessment up front as to whether he or she — even today they don't even have the specific technology competence, but they have to have the ability to maintain and control the case.

Note that I will be participating in a webinar on the duty of technology competence on Thursday, Oct. 29, at 1 p.m. Eastern time.

The free webinar, sponsored by Catalyst, will look at the duty of technology competence generally and with specific reference to e-discovery.

I wrote recently that 13 states had adopted the ethical duty of technology competence reflected in 2012 amendments to the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct.

The ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20's discussion of technology's impact on law practice and marketing has opened up a wide - ranging discussion in the blogosphere about what constitutes technology competence.

Arguably, it seems, if an attorney in Washington lacks technology competence with regard to handling a particular matter, the duty of competence could be satisfied by enlisting the assistance of an LLLT who does have the competence.

Although California has not adopted the duty of technology competence by rule, the State Bar of California issued an ethics opinion last year that adopted the principle.

The training technology competence, again, is another place where I think the people realize the need but as the survey results show, they don't want to spend their time on it.

Essentially, the publication serves as a gentle reminder, to start walking the line, for lawyers who have not heeded the trend line of the new technology competence angle attached to Model Rule 1.1 (and the states» heavy adoption of it) and the updates to Model Rule 1.6.

I'm also pleased to see that they included technology competence as a category asking, «What are you doing to make sure that lawyers are competent in the technology that they use?»

I and my business partner Steve Ellwood have been preaching about the need to raise the level of technology competence within the profession (see our article in the June 2013 Advocates» Journal — «Lawyers On the Beach: The Standard of Care, Technology, and the Oncoming Digital Tsumani»).

We just posted our most - read posts and most - popular discussions of 2015, but today, Sam and Aaron take a moment to highlight some of their favorites, like the best law - firm websites of 2015, our posts about technology competence, and lots of our podcasts.

Just last week, I reported that Oklahoma had adopted the duty of technology competence for lawyers, becoming the 24th state on my ongoing tally of states that have adopted the ABA Model Rule.

The new opinion, Formal Opinion 477 (embedded copy below), updates Formal Opinion 99 - 413, issued in 1999, to reflect changes in the digital landscape as well as 2012 changes to the ABA's Model Rules of Professional Conduct, particularly the addition of the duty of technology competence in Model Rule 1.1 and changes to Rule 1.6 regarding client confidences.

Just this morning, the Virginia Supreme Court entered an order making the Old Dominion the 18th state to adopt the duty of technology competence for lawyers.

In my continuing effort to tally the states that have adopted the duty of technology competence, the total is now 18.

In adopting the rule, the Supreme Court went farther than other states have done, adding two separate comments pertaining to technology competence.

Among the amendments, the order approves adoption of the language of Comment 8 of ABA Model Rule 1.1 pertaining to technology competence.

In my column this week at Above the Law, I discuss this evolving ethical duty of technology competence for lawyers and what it means for a lawyer to be competent in technology.

It is safe to say that, a year from now, the majority of states will have adopted the duty of technology competence.

As this blog continues to follow the states that adopt the duty of technology competence for lawyers, there is another to add: Colorado.

Add Tennessee to the list of states that have adopted the duty of technology competence, bringing the total to 27 states.

As I continue my effort to keep a tally of the states that have adopted the duty of technology competence.

It is significant, therefore, that 20 states have now adopted what I call the duty of technology competence.

In my continuing effort to track states that have adopted the ethical duty of technology competence for lawyers, I have two more to add, one that adopted it recently and one that I missed from earlier this year:

Just a week ago, I reported on the 29th state to have adopted the duty of technology competence, as part of my ongoing tally of states, and now there is the 30th to add: Kentucky.

In my continuing effort to keep a tally of the states that have adopted the duty of technology competence, I've discovered another, Nebraska, which brings the total to 28 states.