Rules of Professional Conduct Committee
Topic: use of online data storage managed by third party vendors to store confidential client documents.
Conclusion of the Committee:
“A lawyer may use online data storage systems to store and back up client confidential information as long as the lawyer takes reasonable care to ensure that the information will remain confidential and that the information is secure against risk of loss.”
Rules: RPC 1.1, 1.6, 1.15A
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