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Data Security Ethics and Best Practices for Court Reporters
Andy Fredericks
The issue of digital security and privacy should be a paramount concern to modern court reporters just as it is to their attorney clients. Yet their biggest risk remains the same as everyone else’s: believing it won’t happen to them.
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Safeguarding Client Data: An Attorney’s Duty to Provide ‘Reasonable’ Security
David G. Ries
Effective cybersecurity requires an ongoing, risk-based, comprehensive process that addresses people, policies and procedures, and technology, including training. Effective security also requires an understanding that security is everyone’s responsibility and constant security awareness by all users of technology.
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Worried About Complying with ABA Opinion 483 on Cybersecurity? Fear No More
Larry J. Hershman and Jeffrey S. Brenner
In response to the omnipresent threat of cyberattacks, the ABA issued Formal Opinion 483, which addresses the obligations imposed upon lawyers to safeguard their clients’ data. Here’s how to achieve compliance.
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Counsel Concerns: Lawyer Ethics Rule In Play in Suit By Business Manager Against Rap Artist
Stan Soocher
The U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina dismissed a conversion counterclaim by rapper Chingy against his former business manager Leslie King, who is a lawyer, on the ground that the artist hadn’t established that a royalty purchase agreement he signed with the lawyer was void for allegedly violating the state’s attorney ethics rule. However, the district court allowed the artist to pursue the ethics rule as an affirmative defense in the underlying lawsuit the attorney’s music company has filed against Chingy.
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Leadership: No Immunity: Sexual Harassment & the Legal Industry
John Hellerman
For members of a conservative industry that — literally — wrote the rulebook on sexual harassment, law firms need to be ready for a day of reckoning that seems inescapable (and may have already happened by the time this article is published).
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Second Edition ABA Cybersecurity Handbook Reflects the Need for Greater Awareness
Mark Sangster
As 2017 came to a close, the American Bar Association opened the next chapter in cybersecurity awareness with the release of the second edition of its…
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Internet Legal Ethics and Client Privacy
Jonathan Bick
Internet professional responsibility and client privacy difficulties are intimately associated with the services offered by lawyers. Electronic attorney services result in data gathering, information exchange, document transfers, enhanced communications and novel opportunities for marketing and promotion. These services, in turn, provide an array of complicated ethical issues that can present pitfalls for the uninitiated and unwary.
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