Tim Ronan of Pullman & Comley knows lawyers who run their trials from their iPads and others who prefer to keep their work organized in old-fashioned “three-ring binders.” Both types will be affected by a new American Bar Association ethics rule admonishing lawyers “to keep up to date on the benefits and risks associated with technology” used in their practice areas.
The digital literacy requirement is an idea that’s been discussed for some time, but only recently codified. For now, there’s no punishment for not being terribly tech savvy. But someday in the not-too-distant future a lawyer’s competency could be called into question if he or she doesn’t understand, for example, that photocopy machines have hard drives that store records of all copied documents and that could potentially reveal senstive client information.
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