Tuesday, October 23, 2018

ABA Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility issues opinion on duties related to safeguarding of data and data breaches

Last week, the ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility issued a formal opinion in which it concludes that lawyers have a duty to safeguard client data and to notify clients of a data breach. 

You can read the opinion (Formal Opinion 483) here.   The ABA Journal has a summary here.

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