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Legal Ethics in the Cloud
Length: 60 Minutes
As early as 1995, the American Bar Association recognized the potential risks associated with emerging technology and the associated need for attorneys’ ethical compliance. Since then, the ABA and all United States jurisdictions have provided opinions and updates to the ethical rules to address attorneys' use of cloud technology in legal practice.
Presented by LEAP Legal Software and featuring law firm consultant and technology expert Chris Vaughan, this one-hour continuing legal education seminar will discuss the types of cloud computing, common attorney uses of the cloud (including reasons why attorneys should be embracing cloud technology), due diligence pointers, HIPAA compliance, and ways to minimize risk of user error. As part of our due diligence tips, we will provide a checklist of questions attorneys should consider before utilizing cloud computing platforms. It’s very likely that you are already using cloud-based platforms in your day-to-day life as well as in your legal practice; our questions will help you to assess whether your current set-up provides the requisite accessibility and flexibility to your firm while simultaneously providing the high level of privacy and security required by your clients.
The program will benefit attorneys in private practice, particularly those tasked with maintaining their law firm’s information technology infrastructure. There is no cost to attend this event. CLE Credit is pending approval.
Chris Vaughan, Founder, Firm Transitions
Chris Vaughan is the founder and Chief Knowledge Advisor of Firm Transitions, a law firm consulting company that has been helping law firms be more productive since 2011. Chris is also a public speaker and business consultant focused on helping attorneys and their firms grow through strategic planning, branding, and improved operational efficiency. This includes the selection of software that firms should utilize based on their individual processes and needs, as well as the provision of in-dept training so that attorneys and their teams are efficiently utilizing software and technology in their practices. Chris has worked with attorneys in firms of all sizes – from the smallest solo practitioners to the largest Am Law 200 firms. When not assisting law firms, Chris also manages a database development company that specializes in API integrations and data analysis. Chris is an alumnus of Wake Forest University and resides near Winston Salem, North Carolina.
Sy Sommer, Director of Product Enablement, LEAP Legal Software
Sy Justin Sommer is the Director of Product Enablement at LEAP Legal Software. Sy is a 2010 graduate of Fordham Law School and is an attorney admitted to practice in the State of New York. Sy began his career in the Family Law Department of Manhattan law firm Davidoff Hutcher & Citron LLP. After three years with DHC, Sy took a role with JPMorgan Chase Bank in Brooklyn, NY where he served as an Associate Vice President Senior Counsel in the bank’s Mortgage Banking Litigation group. In 2018, Sy sought to apply his legal education and experience in the legal technology space and joined LEAP with excitement to further the company’s mission of helping attorneys to be more productive with cloud technology. Despite being a born and raised New Yorker, Sy currently resides in Jersey City, New Jersey.
