{"id":69832,"date":"2020-02-28T10:47:41","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T15:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=69832"},"modified":"2020-02-28T10:47:41","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T15:47:41","slug":"in-the-legal-realm-38-states-have-adopted-the-duty-of-technology-competence-ambrogi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2020\/02\/28\/in-the-legal-realm-38-states-have-adopted-the-duty-of-technology-competence-ambrogi\/","title":{"rendered":"[In the legal realm] 38 states have adopted the duty of technology competence [Ambrogi]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawsitesblog.com\/tech-competence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>38 states have adopted the duty of technology competence<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from lawsitesblog.com by Bob Ambrogi<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">In 2012, something happened that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/catalystsecure.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/new-aba-ethics-rule-underscores-what-edd-lawyers-should-already-know-theres-no-hiding-from-technology\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I called<\/a>\u00a0a sea change in the legal profession: The American Bar Association formally approved a change to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanbar.org\/groups\/professional_responsibility\/publications\/model_rules_of_professional_conduct\/model_rules_of_professional_conduct_table_of_contents.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Model Rules of Professional Conduct<\/a>\u00a0to make clear that lawyers have a duty to be competent not only in the law and its practice, but also in technology.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">More specifically, the ABA\u2019s House of Delegates voted to amend Comment 8 to Model Rule 1.1, which pertains to competence, to read as follows:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><strong>Maintaining Competence<br \/>\n<\/strong>To maintain the requisite knowledge and skill, a lawyer should keep abreast of changes in the law and its practice,\u00a0<em>including the benefits and risks associated with relevant technology<\/em>, engage in continuing study and education and comply with all continuing legal education requirements to which the lawyer is subject. (Emphasis added.)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-69836 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/TechCompetence-Feb2020-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"75%\" height=\"75%\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/TechCompetence-Feb2020-1.jpg 658w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/TechCompetence-Feb2020-1-150x145.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 658px) 100vw, 658px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>38 states have adopted the duty of technology competence &#8212; from lawsitesblog.com by Bob Ambrogi Excerpt: In 2012, something happened that\u00a0I called\u00a0a sea change in the legal profession: The American Bar Association formally approved a change to the\u00a0Model Rules of Professional Conduct\u00a0to make clear that lawyers have a duty to be competent not only in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[832,825,833,830,285,460,195,321],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-access-to-justice","category-law-schools","category-legal-reform","category-legal-technologies","category-legislation-legislatures","category-technology-general","category-tools","category-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69832"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69839,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69832\/revisions\/69839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}