CLEonline.com is pleased to present another excellent online CLE ethics seminar featuring David Hricik whose work on this subject formed the basis for an ethics opinion published by the ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility. This 3-hour ethics seminar is entitled:

Confidentiality and Privileges in Electronic Communications

** (available at any time of the day or night and in time increments convenient to you during the above referenced dates) **

This seminar also features an audio presentation by the instructor/moderator for this seminar, Mr. David Hricik, in which he discusses the issues outlined below. This is a streaming audio presentation that you can access on demand at any time during the course of the seminar. The audio presentation lasts for approximately 3 hours.

Subjects to be covered in the seminar materials and also available for discussion during this online CLE seminar include:

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• How the Internet Transmits E-mail and Why It Does So in Its Unusual Way
  
  
• Framing the Issues Created by Internet E-mail Transmission:
  
  
  1. Waiver or Loss of Privilege
  2. Loss of Confidentiality
     
     
• Impact on Attorney-Client Privilege from Transmitting Internet E-mail
  
  
  1. The ECPA's protection of privilege over e-mail
  2. Any use of an intercepted e-mail -- whether intercepted in storage or in transit -- is probably a crime
     
     
• Breach of Confidentiality
  
  
• Fourth Amendment Analyses of Technologies Similar to the Internet
  
  
  1. Confidentiality and traditional land-line, non-cordless telephone calls
  2. Confidentiality and cordless telephone calls
  3. Confidentiality and cellular telephone communications
     
     
• Confidentiality and Communications by Computer
  
  
  1. Direct lawyer-client computer communications
  2. Password protected communications wholly within on-line service providers
     
     
• Internet Communications
  
  
  1. Encrypted Internet e-mail is secure
  2. The "broadcast" of unencrypted e-mail over the Internet: who is the "listening" audience, and what kind of "reception" can they get?
     
     
     1. Who could be listening?
     2. What kind of reception can interceptors get?
     3. What laws protect Internet e-mail?
     4. The current state of the law concerning e-mail confidentiality

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This special online ethics seminar is based on an extensive law review article on the same subject matter written by David Hricik and published in the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics at Georgetown University Law Center.

The instructor/moderator for this CLEonline.com seminar will be:

Mr. David Hricik, who is an attorney and an assistant professor of law. After practicing as a litigator with the Houston law firms of Baker Botts, Slusser & Frost, and then Yetter & Warden for 14 years, David Hricik became an Assistant Professor of Law with Mercer University School of Law in Macon, Georgia. While in private practice, he focused on complex civil litigation, patent litigation, malpractice defense, and ethics consulting. He has written and spoken extensively on legal ethics, professionalism, and intellectual property. He is the 2002-03 Chair of the Ethics and Professional Responsibility Committee of the Intellectual Property Section of the American Bar Association, and was a member of the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct Committee of the State Bar of Texas from 1997-2002.

The seminar registration fee for this CLEonline.com seminar is only $75.

This seminar is accredited for 3.0 hours of participatory CLE credit (all in legal ethics) by the MCLE Committees of the State Bar of Texas and the State Bar of California. In addition, regular CLE credits for this seminar are also available in a number of other states. CLEonline.com is a State Bar of California approved MCLE provider pursuant to Sec. 9 of the California MCLE Rules and Regulations. (These are not self-study credits, but rather 'participatory' credits as you would receive for attending a traditional, live CLE seminar.)