Law Practice,
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Mar. 21, 2015
Ethical considerations for lawyers in age of the cloud
Lawyers routinely use smartphones, tablets and other devices to perform legal work, which translates into speed and convenience. But that speed and convenience comes at a price.
Stanley Mosk Courthouse
Wendy Chang
Judge
Los Angeles County Superior Court
Loyola Law School, 1995
Wendy is based in the firm's Los Angeles office. She is a member of the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility. She served as an advisor to the State Bar of California's Commission for the Revision of the Rules of Professional Conduct and is a past chair of the State Bar of California's Standing Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct. Wendy is a certified specialist in legal malpractice law by the State Bar of California's Board of Legal Specialization.
Increasingly, technology is becoming ingrained into the delivery of legal services. Lawyers routinely use smartphones, tablets, laptops and other devices to perform legal work, which translates into speed and convenience. That speed and convenience comes at a price, however.
The hardware attorneys use is often mobile, and can be lost, stolen or otherwise compromised. That hardware also frequently connects to a law firm's secure environment through remote means. With each step remov...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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