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Washington State Bar Ethics Opinion says that lawyers may look at available metadata but are prohibited from using a program to obtain intentionally scrubbed information

Posted on June 4, 2012 by jcorsmeier

Hello and welcome to this Ethics Alert blog which will discuss the recent Washington State Bar Association Advisory Opinion which addresses ethics issues related to confidential metadata in electronic documents sent and received by a lawyer.  The advisory opinion is … Continue reading →

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