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Ethics/Professional Responsibility

Sep. 13, 2014

E-discovery and the duty of competence

E-discovery is here to stay - and ethical obligations will follow.

Stanley Mosk Courthouse

Wendy Chang

Judge
Los Angeles County Superior Court

Loyola Law School, 1995

Wendy is based in the firm's Los Angeles office. She is a member of the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility. She served as an advisor to the State Bar of California's Commission for the Revision of the Rules of Professional Conduct and is a past chair of the State Bar of California's Standing Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct. Wendy is a certified specialist in legal malpractice law by the State Bar of California's Board of Legal Specialization.

From cellphones, to text messages, to emails, to apps, technology has become an integral part of the modern developed world, so common that today, many toddlers can operate some aspects of a smartphone. In the span of merely 20 years, it has become rare to come across someone who is not using some form of technology in their daily lives. The effect of technology on the business world has similarly been immense. Computers are now standard, and many businesses and firms have gone co...

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