Legal Ethics in the Digital Age (Powerpoint) by Kaiser Legal Group on 12/20/2011 Delivered on December 20, 2011, as the ethics portion of the Seattle, Washington, Continuing Legal Education seminar (CLE) "Find it Free and Fast on the Net: Strategies for Legal Research on the Web." ...more
Legal Ethics in the Digital Age (text) by Kaiser Legal Group on 12/20/2011 Written for the ethics portion of the Seattle Continuing Legal Education (CLE) seminar text "Find it Free and Fast on the Net: Strategies for Legal Research on the Web.” Michael Kaiser presented the ethics portion of the...more
Sample client disclosure concerning attorney-client email communicaitons by Lawrence McElroen on 10/18/2011 This is a sample client disclosure concerning the use of email and texting as a means of communicating between attorney and client; it's potential impact on the attorney - client privilege and a response to ABA Formal Ethics...more
E-Discovery Malpractice Suit Raises Concerns Over Outsourcing Document Review by Fox Rothschild on 9/8/2011 The recent legal malpractice lawsuit filed by J-M Manufacturing Co., Inc. (“JME”) against the company’s lawyers, McDermott Will & Emery (“McDermott”), over the production of 3,900 privileged documents to the federal...more
"I Declare, It Is Necessary" by Katherine Gallo, Esq. on 8/31/2011 As every lawyer is aware, a party may propound more than 35 specially prepared interrogatories or requests for admissions simply by attaching a Declaration of Necessity pursuant to C.C.P. §2030.040 and C.C.P. §2033.040...more
Your Workplace Computer Is A Lonely Public Roadway by Eli Kantor on 2/2/2011 According to the third district appellate court in Holmes v. Petrovich, 2011 DJDAR 671, your office privacy is a lonely public roadway. And where the limits are clearly posted, you had better obey—no matter what kind of...more
HVB Blurb (What's on your office copier?) by Lawrence McElroen on 10/12/2010 This document contains links to an article concerning an investigation by CBS Evening News into privacy concerns associated with digital office copiers....more
"TWEET" THIS: The Ethics of Social Networking by Nick Badgerow on 6/1/2010 This article explores the ethical concerns created by the explosion of social networking as it relates to law firm marketing, confidentiality and privilege. ...more
Cyberspace in the Workplace by Keyana Laws on 12/7/2009 This article examines two cases which require companies to have clear Internet and E-mail use and monitoring policies to avoid violating the Stored Communications Act and/or an employee’s right to privacy. ...more
Attorney Client Text Messages or Texting & Depositions Don’t Mix by Joshua Gilliland on 8/10/2009 During a remote video deposition, the defending attorney and the deponent had very busy hands texting each other. Were these text messages required to be produced to the opposing party?...more
Law Firms Face Competition for Doc Review Work - Law 360 by Pamela Woldow on 7/23/2009 The rise of e-discovery over the last decade has provided law firms with fertile ground for racking up hours on document review, but it has also made the traditional method of having associates conduct the work under the...more
Coupons Not Required: GCs Look for Creative Ways to Save on Legal Costs by Ursula Furi-Perry by Pamela Woldow on 7/6/2009 There's certainly a lot of talk about alternative fees. In a February article about tying outside legal costs to value, Altman Weil's Pamela Woldow discussed the various ways alternative fee arrangements are manifesting...more