May 22- Ethics; Technology

“I Never Metadata I didn’t like”

Do you know what metadata is? Are you aware of the potential ethics pitfalls that exist when sending and receiving metadata? Join us for a discussion of ethics issues related to the sending and receiving metadata that is specifically tailored to the needs and concerns of local government attorneys. Presenter will address attorney duties under ABA model rules 1.1 and 1.6 (competence and confidentiality, respectively), as well as a variety of state bar legal ethics opinions such as Tex. Legal Ethics Opinion 665 regarding an attorney’s duty to prevent the inadvertent transmission of metadata containing a client’s confidential information.  

Speaker: Peter Haskel

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