Maintaining the security of attorney-client privilege while using modern technologies and electronic devices

Abstract

The development of digital technologies leads to significant changes in the forms of communication between an attorney and his client, as well as in the procedure and conditions of storing an attorney’s dossier and other information received by an attorney that is a subject of attorney-client privilege. The article is devoted to the problems of maintaining the security of attorney-client privilege in attorney’s work with the confidential information using modern technologies including mobile phones and other technical devices. The author believes that in the digital era attorney should pay increased attention to the problem of interaction with information in electronic form, as well as its transfer and storage to maintain the security of attorney-client privilege. The author notes that training in the issue of interaction with modern technologies is an ethical duty of an attorney, indicates that in order to solve this problem is required the cooperation of bar association with technical specialists in the field of digital technologies is necessary. The main point of the article is to determine the measure of attorney’s reasonableness while storing and transferring confidential information and to develop additional recommendatory measures to protect information being the subject of attorney-client privilege.