Bar Assn. Panel’s Ruling Favors E-Mail
Lawyers, rest assured. It is ethical to communicate with clients via e-mail.
That’s the conclusion of the American Bar Assn.’s Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility. Earlier, some state ethics boards raised concerns about e-mail because messages might be intercepted by hackers.
The national committee compared unencrypted e-mail to land-line telephones including cordless, cell phones, faxes and snail mail and determined that e-mail actually offers more privacy than faxes and cellular phones.
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