1. Internet Ethics
Complications of the Digital Age and Web Sites to Help You Untangle Them
Title misleading
Really, talk about electronic data production, storage, and communication

3. Ethical Rules Competence & Diligence (Rules 1.1 & 1.3)
Confidentiality of Information (Rule 1.6)
Candor toward the Tribunal (Rule 3.3)
Fairness to Opposing Party and Counsel (Rule 3.4)
Unauthorized Practice of Law (Rule 5.5)
Advertising (Rules 7.1 – 7.5)
A lawyer shall provide competent representation And shall act with reasonable diligence

4. Competence & Diligence
Online research
Security of electronic transmission
Metadata
Information architecture

5. Confidentiality E-mail communication with clients Cloud computing
‘Unsolicited’ from potential client
Metadata
Social networking

6. Candor & Fairness Online research Electronically stored information
Metadata
Misdirected electronic communication

7. Unauthorized Practice
Web sites
Internet chat rooms
Disclaimers

8. Advertising
Web sites
Online referral services
Mass

9. Technologies Electronic data storage E-mail Metadata Web sites
Online directories and referral services
Real time online communication

11. E-Lawyering Task Force
Law Practice Management Section of the ABA --
Description of e-Lawyering
Best practice guidelines – legal information web sites
Resources for practicing law online

12. eLawyering Blog http://www.elawyeringredux.com/
Section on ethical issues
Focused heavily on virtual law practice
“eLawyering” - all the ways in which lawyers can do their work using the Web and associated technologies

13. American Legal Ethics Library
Rules of professional conduct
Narrative account by expert (22 states)

14. Center for Professional Responsibility
Model Rules of Professional Responsibility
Summaries – ABA formal ethics opinions

15. LegalEthics.com http://www.legalethics.com Mercer professor
Summaries ethics opinions
Links states

16. Legal Ethics Forum http://legalethicsforum.typepad.com/
Commentary from law professors
Links

17. SunEthics
Summaries, Florida ethics decisions

18. Texas Center for Legal Ethics & Professionalism
Publications of the Center
Links
Texas rules and ethics opinions
Bibliography

19. The End