Go to Legal Ethics Forum for links to the Commission’s final resolutions and reports.  While you are at the Legal Ethics Forum site, bookmark it. Day in and day out it is the best source of news about  legal ethics and the law of lawyering.

 

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Kellie Ann Lynch is a professional dancer who has one foot in New York’s  professional dance community, but who, for professional and personal reasons, has chosen New Haven as a base from which to pursue her dance career, which she does with astonishing creativity, energy and resilience. Among other things Kellie is a founding member and co-artistic director of the Elm City Dance Collective.  Recently she was summoned to jury duty where, as is so often the case, she waited to be called.  Waiting – sitting still – is not something that comes naturally to superbly conditioned, highly trained and talented dancers, who, after all, move for a living and who live to move.  Click here for a glimpse through Kellie’s eyes of what it was like to wait to be called.

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Cloud Computing – A Particularly Useful Ethics Opinion from Pennsylvania

April 7, 2012

While taking an ALI-ABA webinar entitled Moving Your Practice To The Cloud Safely and Ethically I learned of an usually thorough and helpful opinion by the Pennsylvania Bar Association Committee on Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility:  Formal Opinion 2011-200,  “Ethical Obligations For Attorneys Using Cloud Computing/Software As A Service While Fulfilling The Duties Of Confidentiality [...]

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ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20 Releases Nearly Final Drafts of Proposals

February 23, 2012

The title of this post is taken from Legal Ethics Forum, the best blog on legal ethics I’ve come across.  If you click on the link you will go to the Legal Ethics Forum site, specifically to its most recent (as of February 23, 2012) post on the work of ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20, [...]

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An UPE: Casemap by Lexis/Nexis

February 22, 2012

UPE means unsolicited product endorsement.  It is one of the categories listed to the right. Casemap is a software program that makes it easier to organize and analyze information contained (somewhere) in large numbers of documents.  I have used it for years and now find it all but indispensable. As tedious a chore as reviewing [...]

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