Today, we spend a few more minutes addressing a topic that will likely be a rich vein of discussion for years to come or for at least for as long as lawyers continue to be human beings whichever is shorter. (Even with this news, you figure we have a few years left before we have […]
Tag: Confidentiality
During my teleseminar presentation for the Clear Law Institute, I talked at some length about a situation dating back to January 2014 when a Chicago lawyer ended up agreeing to discipline over how she responded to a former client’s negative review of her on the Avvo service. You can read a bit about that story here, but […]
Tomorrow I will be one of two speakers for a three-hour CLE in Clarksville, Tennessee sponsored by the Montgomery County Bar Association. I’ll be talking about the variety of ethical issues surrounding audit response letters. Although providing them is certainly contemplated and permitted under RPC 2.3, there are other ethical issues, such as conflicts and […]
From time to time, I have been asked questions about whether lawyers needed to be doing anything (or even could do anything) to try to better guarantee protections of client communications and maintain privilege and confidentiality in the world after the news started to come out about just how broad the NSA’s surveillance operations appeared […]
This is not a political blog, nor even a civil rights law blog. So, there would be no reason for me to write a word here that has anything to do with the Walter Scott incident. But this is a blog about legal ethics and lawyering issues, and the former lawyer for the police officer […]