Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Apr. 26, 2014
State Bar committee tightens ethics guidelines for e-discovery
Lawyers could land in discipline trouble if they botch discovery requests for email and other electronic information, according to a pending opinion from a State Bar committee on ethics.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Lawyers could land in discipline trouble if they botch discovery requests for email and other electronic information, according to a pending opinion from a State Bar committee on ethics.
In what appears to be the first ethics opinion in the country considering attorney competence with e-discovery, the committee declared that lawyers must keep up on evolving technology affecting litigation and m...
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