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New York State Bar Opinion 782

Date 12/08/2004.

Committee on Professional Ethics

Topic: E-mailing Documents that May Contain Hidden Data Reflecting Client Confidences and Secrets

Digest of the Committee:

“Lawyers must exercise reasonable care to prevent the disclosure of confidences and secrets contained in ‘metadata’ in documents they transmit electronically to opposing counsel or other third parties.”

Rules: DR 1-102(A)(5), 4-101(B), (C), (D), EC 4-5.

Referred Ethics Opinions:

  • N.Y. State 749 (2003)
  • N.Y. State 700 (1997)

 

The full text is available at http://www.nysba.org…

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