Attys Must Take 'Reasonable' Cybersecurity Steps, ABA Says

By Sam Reisman (May 11, 2017, 6:56 PM EDT) -- The American Bar Association issued a new ethics opinion Thursday saying that under professional rules of conduct attorneys have a confidentiality obligation to take reasonable measures to ensure that unencrypted emails containing client information are safe from cyberthreats and providing an outline to determine what those measures should be....

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