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The article discusses about security in emails and placing confidential client data at risk. Related material is available at http://www.technethics… The full text available at: http://www.lawtechnologytoday…  

Email is criticized as overloaded, inefficient, and insecure. According to Mr. Galloway, there are now a number of viable alternatives to emails such as internal social networks for companies. The full text is available at http://www.workintelligent.ly…

Several courts have held that privilege may be waived when a client sends an email to counsel on the client’s business network, where the business has notified the employee that the network may be monitored or accessed by the employer, and that employees should have no expectation of privacy in communications sent or received on […]

Metadata refers to information embedded in electronic documents, such as date of creation, author of the document, changes made to the document, author and date of changes, when the document was last saved, and comments to the document.  In ABA Formal Opinion #06-422, the ABA Committee advised that a lawyer who received a document from […]

From the Article: “Accordingly, because email is outmoded, inherently unsecure, and there are now more secure forms of electronic communication available, I predict that within two years or so, lawyers in most jurisdictions will choose to, or be required to, communicate and collaborate with clients using encrypted communications. And, the platform of choice will be encrypted […]

From the Article: “Do lawyers have an ethical obligation to warn clients of the risk of third-party access to all types of electronic communication between attorney and client? This question was addressed last month in an ethics decision, Formal Opinion No. 11-459, issued by the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility.” […]

From the Article: “The bottom line is that lawyers can use cloud computing without encrypting the files before storing them in the cloud. That being said, the determination of whether to upload unencrypted client data into the cloud will vary from one law practice to another and is contingent upon the type of data that […]

From the Article: “An interesting question was raised by a Government law department seeking to use LeapFILE to transfer files: does a party lose its right to claim attorney client privilege over a communication otherwise privileged by using a service like LeapFILE to transmit that communication? The rationale for breaking the privilege is that the […]