As an attorney I feel an obligation to preach to you about what’s right and what’s wrong. People routinely trivialize this important duty by characterizing the subject matter as “ethics” or “professionalism.” As a technology attorney, especially as one cool enough to use Twitter and be on Facebook, I feel a special obligation to instruct [...]
Archive for the ‘Ethics’ Category
Be careful with email because your employer is “looking over your shoulder”
November 15th, 2007
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Workplace email policy destroyed attorney-client privilege Scott v. Beth Israel Medical Center, — N.Y.S.2d —-, 2007 WL 3053351 (N.Y. Sup. October 17, 2007). Dr. Scott, who used to work for Beth Israel Medical Center in New York, sued his former employer for breach of contract and a number of other different things. Before he was [...]
Statements on law firm website result in attorney suspension
May 12th, 2005
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California court upholds medical board’s authority to post physician disciplinary information
March 16th, 2005
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The California Court of Appeal has upheld a trial court’s denial of a petition for writ of mandamus which would have ordered the board to remove from its website information about the plaintiff physician’s past disciplinary record. The physician had argued that certain California statutes (Bus. & Prof. Code ยงยง 803.1 and 2027) did not [...]
