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Blogs have been around for over a decade now and lawyers have been blogging from the very start. That’s why it’s so surprising that many state ethics committees have yet to weigh in on the ethical issues lawyers encounter when ...

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Last month I wrote about D.C. Bar Opinion 370, which addresses the ethics of lawyers using social media for marketing purposes, among other things. The D.C. Bar also simultaneously issued a separate opinion on a related matter: lawyers using social ...

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Amazon Echo has been around for a few years now. But last month was the first time it was reported that data from one of these devices was sought by the prosecution in a murder investigation. For those unfamiliar with ...

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It’s hard to believe, but 2016 is about to draw to a close. And you know what that means: It’s that time of year again. Time to start making a list and checking it twice so you can decide what ...

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In November, the District of Columbia Bar issued an opinion that was over 7,000 words long. In Opinion 370, the committee provided a rather in-depth analysis on the ethics of lawyers using social media for both marketing and personal use. ...

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Lawyers have been using email for more than two decades now. Years ago, in the early 1990s, most jurisdictions did not permit lawyers to use email to communicate with clients. But in the mid-1990s, the tide shifted as email began ...

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Last week, at the monthly meeting of the Monroe County Bar Association’s Solo and Small Firm Committee meeting, the issue of how to choose secure online storage came up. An attorney mentioned that he was in the process of researching ...

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  Recently, I was at a local event and an attorney who learned I worked for a legal software company asked me why she even needed software. After all, she told me, she’s perfectly able to get her job done ...

  Social media: It’s not just for kids anymore. Instead it’s a phenomenon that has impacted all aspects of our lives. One key area that has been greatly changed by social media how we interact, with social media now serving ...

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  Last week it was announced that California had, at long last, eliminated the statute of limitations for all felony sexual abuse matters, including rape, when Gov. Jerry Brown signed the Justice for Victims Act. Even so, more than half ...

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Every year the International Legal Technology Association releases the ILTA/InsideLegal Technology Purchasing Survey. This year’s survey results were released a few weeks ago at the ILTA conference. According to the survey results, technology is on every lawyer’s mind these days, ...

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  Snapchat — it’s not just for kids anymore. Snapchat has grown quickly since its launch in 2012 and now has more active users than Twitter, coming in at more than 150 million each day. That’s why lawyers, especially litigators, ...

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