We invited Megan Zavieh of Zavieh Law onto the Non-Eventcast to talk about modern legal ethics issues and provide us with real answers about how to handle them.
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Upgrading technology can help lawyers comply with ethics rules
Lawyer Megan Zavieh speaks Friday at an ABA Techshow 2021 session titled “Tech Ethics in a World Molded by the COVID-19 Pandemic.”
Lawyers seeking to comply with their ethical duties would be wise to upgrade a wide variety of technology services they utilize, attorney Megan Zavieh said during an ABA Techshow 2021 session Friday.
Home internet, online payment software and cloud storage tools were among the areas in which Zavieh recommended attorneys pay for enhanced products.
She said the upgrades would help attorneys ensure they adhere to their duty of client confidentiality and comply with the general principle stemming from the ethics rules that they use secure technological platforms. Additionally, paying for business-level services could assist lawyers in meeting their duty of technological competence.
Will paper bar exams become a thing of the past?
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While there’s significant disagreement on how the bar exam should change, many believe it will, and there’s a wide range of ideas about what should happen.
So far, suggestions for change include breaking the test into smaller segments and administering part of it in law school; replacing essay questions with performance tests; and doing away with the licensing exam entirely.
The question of how the bar exam could improve was discussed before the COVID-19 pandemic, but safety concerns around in-person testing for what would normally have been a July administration drew more attention to the issue.
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