Family Advocate Winter 2019: Technology for Lawyers: Tools and Traps

Features

Family

Expectations of Privacy in Audio and Video Recording in a Family Law Context

By Rose L. Hubbard

You wouldn’t want to make your clients afraid to use technology to record, but recording should be done with a keen awareness of applicable laws, risks, and benefits.

Family

The Perils of Spyware: A Quick Overview

By Fernando M. Luna

Spyware can seriously undermine a family law case, whether your client is the target or the offending party. It can also send the client who uses it from your family law office to the office of a criminal defense attorney.

Family

The Technology “Do Not Do” List: A Guide for Clients

By Sharon D. Nelson, John W. Simek & Michael C. Maschke

Clients’ use of social media, text messaging, and other technologies often becomes an explosive part of the divorce and discovery processes. This technology “do not do” list can help your clients protect themselves.

Family

Tech Ethics Challenges for Family Lawyers Abound

By Daniel J. Siegel & Thomas G. Wilkinson

Family lawyers face special tech-related ethics challenges because their clients often attempt to use technology to spy on soon-to-be-ex spouses. The Model Rules rule, however. They require you to prevent unauthorized disclosures of confidential information.

Family

Spoliation of Electronic Evidence: A Primer with Sample Spoliation Letter to Opposing Counsel

By Ike Vanden Eykel & Lindsey V. Underwood

Evidence collected from electronic devices may help win or lose a family law case, but the risk of spoliation is high. A spoliation letter is a useful tool for putting the other party on notice about the duty to preserve evidence.

Family

Electronic Evidence FAQs: A Family Law Judge Weighs In

By Emily Miskel

Electronic evidence from social media websites, text messages, and cellphone recordings is now a critical foundation of family law trials. Here’s a quick guide to the most common foundations for authentication.

Family

The Trouble with Devices and the Data They Contain

By Gordon D. Cruse

For lawyers, electronic devices pose problems. Here are tips for protecting confidential information on the “big three”: computers, tablets, and, “where the real gold lives,” cellphones.

Family

Managing Electronic Evidence

By Joseph W. Booth

The phrase “electronic evidence” is becoming meaningless. Almost all evidence will soon be electronic. We owe our clients a duty to protect and preserve all forms of electronic evidence. Here are some best practices.

Columns

Family

From the Chair | The Goal of Wellness: Essential for Family Lawyers

By Melissa J. Avery

We must take the time to foster our own well-being. Yes, require hard work and best efforts from those around you, but also encourage and model work-life balance and participation in wellness initiatives.

Family

From the Editor in Chief

By Kathleen A. Hogan

I am writing this column during the week of Thanksgiving and remembering when “apps” might have been shorthand for appetizers and “spoliation” was what happened to leftover turkey. Times have changed.

Family

ART: Law & Practice | IVG: The New IVF?

By Brian Esser

Perhaps the most exciting—and controversial—recent innovation in reproductive science, in vitro gametogenesis (IVG), has the potential to end infertility as we know it.

Family

Section Highlights

By Cindy Swan

Highlights of the 2018 Fall CLE Conference in Tucson, which included twenty-one CLE programs and a trip to the U.S.–Mexican border to learn firsthand more about the migrant crisis there.

American Bar Association

Technology for Lawyers: Tools and Traps

Our Top 10 Apps for Family Law Attorneys

Features

Expectations of Privacy in Audio and Video Recording in a Family Law Context

The Perils of Spyware: A Quick Overview

The Technology “Do Not Do” List: A Guide for Clients

Tech Ethics Challenges for Family Lawyers Abound

Spoliation of Electronic Evidence: A Primer with Sample Spoliation Letter to Opposing Counsel

Electronic Evidence FAQs: A Family Law Judge Weighs In

The Trouble with Devices and the Data They Contain

Managing Electronic Evidence

Columns

From the Chair | The Goal of Wellness: Essential for Family Lawyers

From the Editor in Chief

ART: Law & Practice | IVG: The New IVF?

Section Highlights

Issue Editors

Jennifer M. Riemer

Gerald L. Shoemaker Jr.

American Bar Association Logo American Bar Association

Technology for Lawyers: Tools and Traps

Our Top 10 Apps for Family Law Attorneys

Features

Expectations of Privacy in Audio and Video Recording in a Family Law Context

The Perils of Spyware: A Quick Overview

The Technology “Do Not Do” List: A Guide for Clients

Tech Ethics Challenges for Family Lawyers Abound

Spoliation of Electronic Evidence: A Primer with Sample Spoliation Letter to Opposing Counsel

Electronic Evidence FAQs: A Family Law Judge Weighs In

The Trouble with Devices and the Data They Contain

Managing Electronic Evidence

Columns

From the Chair | The Goal of Wellness: Essential for Family Lawyers

From the Editor in Chief

ART: Law & Practice | IVG: The New IVF?

Section Highlights

NEW! Family Law Quarterly is now all-electronic!

Issue Editors

Jennifer M. Riemer

Gerald L. Shoemaker Jr.

American Bar Association