The headline could read “ABA drags lawyers, kicking and screaming, into the 21st Century,” but that would not tell the whole story. In reality, for the past decade or more, lawyers have increasingly relied on technology to practice law, but that reliance has grown so incrementally that its potential impact on ethical responsibilities may not have been considered.
Enter the ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20, which studied the way various factorsmost importantly, technologyhave changed how lawyers practice law. Several months ago, the commission issued a report1 to the American Bar Association’s House of Delegates proposing amendments to a number of the Model Rules of Professional Conduct (the Rules).2
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