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Safeguarding Client Data: An Attorney's Duty to Provide 'Reasonable' Security Image

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 Image

Worried About Complying with ABA Opinion 483 on Cybersecurity? Fear No More

Larry J. Hershman & 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 Image

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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<i>Leadership:</i> No Immunity: Sexual Harassment & the Legal Industry Image

<i>Leadership:</i> 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 Image

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 Image

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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