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Kill The Dinosaurs, And Other Tips For Achieving Technical Competence In Your Law Practice, Antigone Peyton Jan 2015

Kill The Dinosaurs, And Other Tips For Achieving Technical Competence In Your Law Practice, Antigone Peyton

Richmond Journal of Law & Technology

It is a challenge to practice law in the digital age. This is particularly true when a practice involves significant e-Discovery, Intellectual Property, and technology law—areas in which technical issues merge with legal ones. One of the major challenges of bringing a law practice up to twenty-first-century standards relates to dinosaur thoughts, a.k.a. an “old ways are best” mentality.


Email, Metadata, And Clouds, Oh My! Recent Changes To The Model Rules Of Professional Conduct, Joyce Manna Janto Aug 2014

Email, Metadata, And Clouds, Oh My! Recent Changes To The Model Rules Of Professional Conduct, Joyce Manna Janto

Law Faculty Publications

A discussion of how the 2012 revisions to the Model Rules of Professional Conduct affect the attorney's duties in handling email: encryption, storage, metadata, and confidentiality.


The Ethics Of E-Mail, Thomas E. Spahn Jan 2009

The Ethics Of E-Mail, Thomas E. Spahn

Richmond Journal of Law & Technology

In many ways, communicating by e-mail and other forms of electronic transmission reflects a fundamentally different way of human interaction. Historians eventually will put this in perspective, but one could easily conclude that e-mails are essentially a “third way” for people to communicate.