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Lawyer Ethics and Email
Sponsored by the Idaho Law Foundation, Inc. in partnership with Freestone and WebCredenza, Inc.
May 1, 2023
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. (MT)
*Live Audio Streaming Only
1.0 Ethics credit
Registration Fee: $55.00
*Please note: This is a Live Replay of the CLE presented on May 25, 2022. If you received credit for this course on May 25th you will not be able to receive credit for attending this replay. This replay counts as a live CLE credit.
Law practice without email is difficult to imagine. Clients and courts not only use it but expect lawyers to use it for communications. But email comes with a host of substantial ethical issues. Is email secure? Can it be used to – even inadvertently – create an attorney-client relationship? How does email impact the attorney-client privilege? What about email conversations with a represented adversary? How can confidentiality and other ethical duties be satisfied when law firms almost always work with outside vendors to provide email? These and other substantial ethical questions will be discussed in this practical guide to the ethical issues when lawyers use email in their practices.
- Beginning an attorney relationship via email – intentionally and inadvertently
- Effect on attorney-client privilege when using a vendor for email
- Discarding/deleting email and working with outside vendors
- Ex parte communications with represented adversaries
- Corporate counsel issues – in-house creation of documents, legal v. business advice
- Inadvertently sent email and metadata embedded in email
