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The Ethical Obligation To Be Technologically Competent (New York Law Journal)
New York Law Journal, January 8, 2016
The Ethical Obligation To Be Technologically Competent
The New York City Bar Association Committee on Professional Ethics introduced its Formal Opinion 2015-3, Lawyers Who Fall Victim To Internet Scams (Opinion 2015-3), by noting that “Internet-based scams targeting lawyers are not new and appear to be on the rise. Since 2009, email scams have swindled lawyers out of an estimated $70 million. These scams are often highly sophisticated, involving parties that appear to be representing legitimate international corporations and using high-quality counterfeit checks that can take a bank weeks to discover. One experienced ring obtained $29 million over a two-year period from seventy lawyers in the United States and Canada.”
