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  3. Lawyer Ethics and Texting

    Lawyer Ethics and Texting

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    Text messaging has become a mainstream form of communication. Clients now routinely text their lawyers about pending matters.

    They may ask about the status of a case, provide facts about a case, communicate decisions to a lawyer, or message other sensitive information. These messages are often to a lawyer's mobile phone that is used extensively for personal purposes, unsecured in their transmissions, and easily accessible by third parties.

    This new wave of lawyer-client communication raises many difficult ethical questions, including preservation of the attorney-client privilege.

    This program provides a guide to the major ethics issues when lawyers and their clients text message about pending matters.

    • Confidentiality issues involving unsecured transmission of texts involving sensitive case issues
    • How to handle mobile phones used for both personal purposes and law practice
    • Potential loss of the attorney-client privilege when text messages are accessible by third parties
    • Tension among the duties of competence, prudence and to communicate with clients
    • Understanding the ethical risks and counseling clients about the risks to their case when texting

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    • Thomas E. Spahn

      Thomas E. Spahn is a partner in the McLean, Virginia office of McGuireWoods, LLP, where he has a broad complex commercial, business and securities litigation practice. He also has a substantial practice advising businesses on properly creating and preserving the attorney-client privilege and work product protections. For more than 20 years he has lectured extensively on legal ethics and professionalism and has written "The Attorney-Client Privilege and the Work Product Doctrine: A Practitioner's Guide," a 750 page treatise published by the Virginia Law Foundation. Mr. Spahn has served as member of the ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility and as a member of the Virginia State Bar's Legal Ethics Committee. He received his B.A., magna cum laude, from Yale University and his J.D. from Yale Law School

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    February 22, 2023
    Wed 1:00 PM EST

    Duration 1H 0M

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