This 1-hour October 26, 2011 program by Louise L. Hill, Esq., gives a thorough and practical explanation of the Rules of Ethics relating to an attorney's obligations to protect a client's confidentiality. Mrs. Hill is a Professor of Law at Widener School of Law, Wilmington, Delaware.

Topics include:

üBackground 

• the ethics of confidentiality

• Model Rules of Professional Responsibility 1.1 and 1.6

• inadvertent disclosure

üConfidentiality And New Technologies 

• Model Rules of Professional Responsibility 4.4(b)

üMetadata     

üPrivate Use Of Workplace Computers: the Ethical Rules 

• ABA Formal Ethics Opinions 11-459 and 11-60

üGlobal Challenges