Ethics, Technology and Small Firms
April 2014
Ethics, Technology and Small Firms
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Teleseminars are midday continuing legal education conferences broadcast over the telephone. From the convenience of your office or home, you are able to dial into an 800 number, and hear nationally recognized practice leaders speak on important issues in the law. You are also able to ask them your questions. Teleseminars marry the best of technology and education to bring the world of CLE to your office or home.
How to Register
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1. CALL us! (303) 860-0608, or toll free (888) 860-2531
2. Or REGISTER ONLINE NOW by using the corresponding course links above.
Program Description:
Technology has changed everything lawyers do. You market your expertise through firm web sites, e-newsletters, and social media. You communicate with clients and opposing counsel via email and mobile devices. You receive, edit, store and transmit client files electronically. You may even file documents with the courts electronically. The first ethical duty of a lawyer is to practice competently, which duty includes understanding and managing technology in the law office and, while using it, ensuring client confidences. In a firm of any size this can be a tremendous challenge - even more so in small firms. This program will provide you with a practical guide to major ethical issues particular to smaller law firms in choosing and using technology in law practice.
- Ethical issues for small firms using law office technology
- Email - ensuring client confidences, retaining and destroying electronic files and communications
- "The Cloud" - storing client files on remote, shared servers
- Files - retaining and destroying electronic files
- Client Development - firm web sites, e-mail/newsletter updates, and social media
- Client Money - managing client money online and using credit cards
Faculty:
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. e received his B.A., magna cum laude, from Yale University and his J.D. from Yale Law School.
Registration Fees
| Non Member | $109.00 |
| CBA | $89.00 |
- General Credits: 1.00
- Ethics Credits: 1.00
- EDI Credits:
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