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Ethics/Professional Responsibility

Jan. 31, 2015

What's new in updated e-discovery ethics opinion?

In April 2014, the State Bar's professional responsibility committee released an opinion on e-discovery ethics. And just this month, they revised that opinion.

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.

In April 2014, the State Bar of California's Standing Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct (COPRAC) released Proposed Ethics Opinion 11-0004 "Electronically Stored Information and Discovery Requests" for public comment. The proposed opinion appeared to be the first proffered ethics opinion addressing electronically stored information and discovery in the nation. That first round of public comment closed in June, and the opinion went back before the COPRAC for further revi...

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