MEMO: Do I always need to encrypt my correspondence with clients?

I.            How Email Travels              After an email message is composed and the author hits the “send” button, an email goes through several steps, known as “layers”, before leaving the author’s computer.  See Erinn Phillips, How Does Email Travel? (Aug. 1, 2012), http://www.atlanticwebworks.com/blog/how-does-email-travel/.  The email is cut into many tiny […]

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ETHICS OPINIONS: Do I always need to encrypt my correspondence with clients?

                                 JUR. AUTHORITY POSITION DETAILS ABA American Bar Association Standing Committee On Ethics And Professional Responsibility, Formal Opinion 99-413 & 11-459 NO Opinion 99-413: Unencrypted e-mail sent over the Internet are not unethical  because “transmission affords a reasonable expectation of […]

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Professor Nathan M Crystal, Technology and Confidentiality

Professor Nathan M Crystal, Technology and Confidentiality Topics of the presentation (1) public use of technology:            California Ethics Committee Formal Opinion 2010-179            ABA Formal Opinion 99-413            South Carolina Rule of Professional Conduct 1.6 (2) metadata in document transmission     […]

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