Are you really in control of your client files? 
By:
Ed Poll
Published: February 4, 2013
Tags: client files, ethics, practice management
Rule of Professional Conduct 1.15 states that lawyers have a professional duty to protect all documents relating to clients by requiring that client property and files be “appropriately safeguarded.”
Failure to keep files safe and free from outside perusal is a failure in the duty to act competently in the best interests of a client. The rules and specific time periods for storing or destroying client files vary by jurisdiction.
Destroying client files will cost Dewey more than $1M
Published: January 28, 2013
Tags: client files, confidentiality, Dewey & LeBoeuf
The price of protecting client confidences will cost defunct law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf almost $1.4 million.
Dewey bankruptcy raises document destruction issues
Published: September 14, 2012
Tags: Bankruptcy, client files, law firms
After more than 100 years, law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in May, listing $193.2 million in assets and $315 million in liabilities.
But with the firm still in existence only long enough to settle with creditors, one question remains: what to do with all the paper?
Arizona ethics opinion: ok to put client files online
By:
Correy Stephenson
Published: January 11, 2010
Tags: client files, ethics, technology
Lawyers in Arizona may provide an online file for clients as long as they take “reasonable precautions” to protect the confidentiality of the information, according to the Ethics Committee of the State Bar of Arizona.
Closing the client’s file
By:
Jim Calloway
Published: July 28, 2009
Tags: client files, law practice management
Columnist Jim Calloway explores the importance of creating and implementing a written file destruction policy.
