At the recent In-House Counsel Seminar, three Ward and Smith attorneys presented a realistic role play response to an incidence of wire fraud, addressing red flags associated with.
A possible reason behind the inundation of information about data privacy could be that privacy and data security has only recently gained the attention of business leaders. Whether federally regulated or not, American businesses have traditionally collected vast amounts of data.
In a presentation by Ward and Smith attorney Angela Doughty, In-House Counsel Seminar attendees received an overview on a variety of topics relevant to privacy and data security,.
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At our 2020 Annual Ethics for In-House Counsel Seminar in December, we addressed Legal Ethics in the Time of COVID-19. That presentation was through the framework of ABA Formal Ethics Opinion 482, Ethical Obligations Related to Disasters (Sept. 19, 2018). Although ABA Formal Opinion 482 focuses on natural disasters such as hurricanes, floods, tornados and the like, it is also applicable to COVID-19 as a slow-moving disaster. One of the issues raised in ABA Formal Opinion 482 is the Unauthorized Practice of Law (”UPL”).
Shortly thereafter, on December 16, 2020, the ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility issued Formal Opinion 495, which addresses the reality of lawyers working remotely during the pandemic. ABA Formal Opinion 495 provides common sense direction to lawyers, who have either chosen or been forced to carry on remotely their practice of law of the jurisdiction(s) in which they are