New confidentiality rules are intended to benefit clients by requiring lawyers and firms to adopt better ways of handling hot-button issues like insider leaks, system hacks, and misdirected emails. Corporate counsel will want to know how outside counsel will actually improve their current approach to confidentiality, Peter Norman writes in ACCDocket.com.

In a commencement address at the University of Rhode Island last week, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor told graduates to value their "uh oh" moments, including "sending an email to the wrong person." 

There's an ethical quandary that keeps us up at night here at ReplyToSome headquarters. 

As of May 2016, 21 states have adopted the American Bar Association’s Model Rule of Professional Conduct 1.6(c), which requires lawyers to use “reasonable efforts” to protect emails containing clients’ confidential information from falling into the wrong hands.