Current & Recent Research at Penn Law
File: | [View Document] |
Author: |
Murphy, Michael T. |
Citation: | The Search for Clarity in Attorney’s Duty to Google, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 20-30 |
Date Published: | Forthcoming |
Date Posted: | 08/28/2018 |
Subjects: | Law, Technology and Communications |
Keywords: | Professional Ethics Law and Technology |
Abstract: | |
The Search for Clarity in an Attorney’s Duty to Google (Work In Progress)
Work in progress, discussing recent rulings where lawyers have been found to violate a professional duty when they failed to conduct an internet search for relevant information about a matter, and fashioning an approach to codifying this duty as a rule. |