Discarded devices may impose ethical obligations on attorneys 
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Published: November 29, 2010
Tags: Ethics, Technology
A proposed Florida ethics opinion suggests that lawyers have an ethical duty to sanitize their storage devices, including iPhones, Blackberrys, flash drives, laptops and copiers, in order to prevent inadvertent disclosure of confidential client information.
Proposed Advisory Opinion 10-2 would require attorneys who choose to use devices that store media to take reasonable steps to ...
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