Risky Mail: Concerns in Confidential Attorney-Client Email

Abstract

Abstract:Early in the days of attorney-client email, David Hricik wrote a soothing law review article, Lawyers Worry Too Much About Transmitting Client Confidences By Internet E-mail, arguing that email had risks but could be assumed private for the purpose of professional ethics. The ABA agreed in 1999, issuing a formal opinion that encrypting email was not required by ethical standards, and most jurisdictions followed suit. The 1999 ABA opinion persists today, despite being dangerously technology-specific, focused on almost obsolete technology, and over ten years later its legal foundation remains unsettled.

Review of the Applicability of Advocate Immunity Rights in Indonesia

“…In that country, the right of immunity covers communications between an Advocate and his or her Client in both criminal and civil contexts. The communication is considered Privileged communication and not as evidence in the trial (Bolin, 2012) The expectation of secrecy is not the same as confidentiality in the context of confidential communications.…”