{"id":1355,"date":"2023-05-06T16:27:05","date_gmt":"2023-05-06T20:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tarleyrobinson.com\/?p=1355"},"modified":"2023-05-06T16:27:05","modified_gmt":"2023-05-06T20:27:05","slug":"update-work-email-american-bar-association-lawyers-caution-clients-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tarleyrobinson.com\/?p=1355","title":{"rendered":"Update on using work email &#8211; American Bar Association says lawyers must caution clients of risks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We continually warn about the use of work email accounts to correspond with your attorney:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"3 tips for safe emailing with your attorney\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.tarleyrobinson.com\/?p=112\">3 tips for safe emailing with your attorney<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Using a company computer to email your attorney may be a bad idea\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.tarleyrobinson.com\/?p=666\">Using a company computer to email your attorney may be a bad idea<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Emails from work computer can waive rights to privileged communications\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.tarleyrobinson.com\/?p=881\">Emails from work computer can waive rights to privileged communications<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanbar.org\/aba.html\">American Bar Association<\/a>\u00a0has now opined that lawyers should &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanbar.org\/content\/dam\/aba\/administrative\/professional_responsibility\/aba_formal_opinion_11_459.authcheckdam.pdf\">warn the client<\/a> about the risk of sending or receiving electronic communications using a computer or other device, or e-mail account, where there is a significant risk that a third party may gain access.&#8221;\u00a0Although the ABA&#8217;s opinion is not binding upon any state regulatory bar association, it is likely that state bar associations, like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vsb.org\">Virginia State Bar<\/a>, will review this opinion with interest.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_115\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-115\" class=\" wp-image-115\" title=\"Williamsburg Virginia Business Lawyers\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.tarleyrobinson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Computer-Keyboard-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Williamsburg Virginia Business Lawyers\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.tarleyrobinson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Computer-Keyboard-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.tarleyrobinson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Computer-Keyboard-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.tarleyrobinson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Computer-Keyboard.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-115\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Client Email<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Most of our communications are not private, even though we think they are. Work emails are not secure. Regardless of whether lawyers are required or suggested to warn clients, it is not a good idea to use your work email account to email your attorney.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Tarley Robinson, PLC, Attorneys and Counsellors at Law<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Williamsburg, Virginia<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.tarleyrobinson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/jt-photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"jt photo\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.tarleyrobinson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/jt-photo-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"jt photo 150x150 Using a company computer to email your attorney may be a bad idea\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We continually warn about the use of work email accounts to correspond with your attorney: 3 tips for safe emailing with your attorney; Using a company computer to email your attorney may be a bad idea Emails from work computer can waive rights to privileged communications The American Bar Association\u00a0has now opined that lawyers should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,23,5,4],"tags":[274,114,273,215,275,134,107],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tarleyrobinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tarleyrobinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tarleyrobinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tarleyrobinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tarleyrobinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1355"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tarleyrobinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2419,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tarleyrobinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions\/2419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tarleyrobinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tarleyrobinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tarleyrobinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}