Back to the Future of Legal Ethics

Back to the Future of Legal Ethics

Apr 20, 2021

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM ET

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In contrast to the Analogue Era, Digital-Age technology inherently and ubiquitously creates daunting and previously non-existent challenges for lawyers seeking to comply with (a) legal-ethics standards imposed by the judicial branch pursuant to its constitutional/common-law exercise of inherent judicial power over the administration of justice to regulate the practice of law and professional conduct of lawyers and (b) civil standards of care (i.e., legal-malpractice standards) applicable to the provision of legal advice and/or services in constitutional, criminal, civil, or administrative proceedings and/or in transactional matters. Virtually all such standards arose from foundational principles that evolved under common law since the creation of the legal profession by the inherent power of courts many centuries ago. 

 

Among our profession's Digital Age challenges are the need to sensibly determine when we must either (1) force Digital Age technology to yield to such principles or (2) adapt such principles to Digital-Age technology. A sensible methodology for doing so is, to begin with, a thorough understanding of dimensions of such principles as they were understood in the Analogue Era and then use such understandings as templates for analysis in making such determinations. In other words, we need to go "Back to the Past" (the Analogue Era) to re-familiarize ourselves with all the important dimensions of such principles and then come "Back to the Future" (our current Digital Age) to then acquire a thorough understanding of the extent to which Digital Age technology presents challenges to the preservation of such principles and then determine when and how to (A) force Digital Age technology to yield to such principle, (B) sensibly adopt such principle to the technology in a way that preserves the essence of the principle or (C) recognize when neither (A) nor (B) will be possible. This seminar focuses on all three tasks. 

 

Course Time Schedule: 


Eastern Time: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM 


Central Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM


Mountain Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM


Pacific Time: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM


Alaska Time: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM


Hawaii-Aleutian Time: 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

About the Presenters

James R. Wrenn, Jr., Esq.

James R. Wrenn Jr. at WrennLaw.Com

Practice Area: Ethics (+1 other areas)

James Wrenn Jr. Esq. is an attorney in Virginia. He is admitted to practice in the Virginia Supreme Court, the lower courts of the Commonwealth of Virginia, US District Courts for Eastern and Western Districts of Virginia, and the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth...

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