ETHICS & TECHNOLOGY RESOURCES

This Ethics & Technology page is a collection of resources addressing attorney professional responsibility issues that arise in connection with the use of Internet websites, email, chat rooms and other technologies. The resources include advisory ethics opinions, articles and MCLE programs. Most of the links to these resources are internal links to other State Bar pages. Some are external links to local or specialty bar association and other websites.

• Ethics Opinions
• Articles
• Online MCLE Programs

The above links organize items by the type of resources. The links below organize the same collection of resources by subject matter.

• Online Communication (email, chat, blogs, etc...)
• Electronic Files (storage, metadata, e-Discovery, etc...)
• Advertising (website and email content issues)
• Social Media
• Internet/Email Scams

The links below are to proposed State Bar rules or proposed State Bar ethics opinions that are not final but may be of interest to persons researching ethics and technology issues.

• Proposed State Bar Ethics Opinions
• Proposed State Bar Rules of Professional Conduct

Please join us for the 16th Annual Ethics Symposium - Evolution of Ethics in an Electronic Age - at UC Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco on May 19, 2012.  The ethics and technology-related panel topics will include: 1) Maintaining Confidences and Competence in an ESI World, 2) Ethical Implications in Cyberspace and Social Media, and 3) The No-Contact Rule - Types of Communication Covered by Rule 2-100. www.calbar.ca.org/ethics-symposium