Attorneys are free to ditch most hard copies of client records and archive them in cyberspace, as long as adequate measures to protect confidentiality are taken, says the Supreme Court Advisory Committee on Professional Ethics.
“Nothing in the RPCs prevents a lawyer from archiving a client’s file through use of an electronic medium such as PDF files or similar files,” the panel wrote in Opinion 701, published Monday.
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