CLE: July 16, 2025 – Electronic Era Ethics

Join the Pittsburgh Paralegal Association for a CLE on July 16, 2025

Electronic Era Ethics

1.0 Ethics Credit

via Zoom

presented by Tom Spahn, Esq.

This interactive program uses hypotheticals to highlight the dramatic effect email, texts and other electronic communications have had on lawyers’ ethics duties. The program generally follows the lifespan of an attorney-client relationship, including: creation of the relationship (such as the effect of an unsolicited email from a would-be client); the ethical propriety of electronic communications with clients (especially lawyers who practice “virtually”); communications with adversaries (including “reply all” emails, lawyers’ response to inadvertently transmitted communications, and metadata); dealing with third parties (such as service providers and outsourced colleagues); discovery (such as accessing adverse witnesses’ social media); jurors’ research and communications; judges’ research and “friending” of lawyers; attorney-client relationships’ termination.

PPA members may attend for FREE.

The fee for non-members is now $20.00.