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ABA

ABA Warns Attorney’s Posting on Public Commentaries

by in Attorney Client Relationship, confidentiality, Ethics Opinion, Legal Services, Professionalism, Social Media. Posted March 29, 2018
The American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility (“ABA”) has issued Formal Opinion 480 warning lawyers who participate in online public commentaries (Twitter, Facebook, blogs etc.) that they cannot always circumvent their duty of confidentiality, under Model Rule 1.6, by positing fact patterns that include a client’s information as a “hypothetical.”
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Professional

New York State Bar: Lawyers Offering Professional Services that are Indistinct from Legal Services Remain Subject to Rules of Professional Conduct

by in Advisory Opinion, Legal Services, News, Professionalism. Posted October 19, 2017
The New York State Bar Association (“NYSBA”) Committee on Professional Ethics has issued an advisory opinion stating that all of New York’s Rules of Professional Conduct apply to any non-legal service provided by a New York attorney when those services are indistinct from the attorney’s own legal services.
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Shred

To Shred, or Not to Shred: That is the Question – Nebraska Permits Attorneys to Shred Physical Files

by in confidentiality, Ethics Opinion, Legal Services, Professionalism, Technology. Posted September 21, 2017
The Nebraska Supreme Court’s ethics committee has released an advisory opinion permitting attorneys to destroy physical copies of a client’s closed file so long as it is preserved in electronic form. However, the opinion advises that before a physical file may be digitized and subsequently destroyed, attorneys should consider: Shred
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