Protecting Business Information In E-mails

Safeguarding Client and Business Information in the E-mail Age is the title of a CLE seminar planned for this month by the New York County Lawyers' Association (NYCLA).

The program is scheduled for Monday, May 15 from 6 to 9 p.m. at the NYCLA Home of Law, 14 Vesey Street, New York City.

This interactive program uses hypotheticals to exploreunique issues involving lawyers' use of electronic communications and documents, including: the ethical limits on using new communications technologies; the ethics implications of working with service providers and discarding electronic files; the rules governing communications with adversaries; and the ethics ramifications of litigation issues (including outsourcing of privilege review work, the duty to retainelectronic documents when anticipating litigation, the crime-fraud exception as applied to electronic document spoliation and preparing privilege logs for electronic communications).

Serving as program chairs are J. Patrick DeLince, DeLince & Clyne; Steven Landis, Shebitz Berman and Cohen P.C., and Anthony L. Soudatt, law and technology consultant.

For details on available CLE credits and program fees, see the Bulletin Board on The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel website at www.metrocorpcounsel.com.

For reservations, call (212) 267-6646 or visit www.nycla.org.