ANNUAL IBM ETHICS (Webinar) DO THE RIGHT THING IN CYBERSPACE: Meeting Ethics Challenges When Practicing Across the Bandwidth - Including The Special Challenges Posed by COVID (w/Sponsor Firm Barton LLP)

Bob Dylan’s famous line “The times, they are a’ changin’” has never had more resonance than in the practice of law in 2020.  Remote work, meeting with clients and business partners virtually, taking fingers to keyboard rather than pen to paper, finding and producing evidence from the recesses of computer systems all raise ethical issues you probably never learned in law school or at traditional ethics seminars.

This rather untraditional, interactive presentation will address the ethical challenges of practicing law across electronic frontiers, including

• How to satisfy the duty of technological knowledge and competence
• Keeping client information and communications secure
• Protecting that information across national borders within which privilege laws may differ significantly from those in the U.S.