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Can Lawyers Ethically Store and Transmit Client Info in the Cloud?

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Some of those opinions may be found on the ABA Legal Technology Resource Center’s webpage. Note that it is an incomplete list with Illinois and possibly others omitted.). As you know by now, especially if you live in one of the over 30 states that has adopted it, ABA Model Rule 1.1 Likewise, Model Rule 1.6(c)

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Leaving Your Firm? Aim for a Joint Notice to Clients

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For example, you should not urge them to pack up their business; rather, you should let diligence in their matters steer your willingness and ability to continue providing legal services in their direction. About the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism. Again, see ABA Formal Op.

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How Lawyers Should Respond to Cognitive Decline in a Client

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For example, children as young as five or six years of age, and certainly those of ten or twelve, are regarded as having opinions that are entitled to weight in legal proceedings concerning their custody. may seem harsh in tethering a lawyer to a matter when a client’s competency cannot allow for diligent representation.

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