Law firms

Outside counsel guidelines, the client security questionnaire, and the ethics opinions behind both. We know the paper each one arrives on.

What arrives

The OCGs
Client outside counsel guidelines. Contractual, not regulatory, and carrying the data security, audit, notification and indemnity terms the client's own vendors were given.
The questionnaire, or the client audit
The client vendor-security questionnaire, and in some engagements an on-site security audit of the firm.
477R and 483
ABA Formal Opinion 477R on securing client communications, and Formal Opinion 483 on the duties owed after a breach.
Rule 1.6(c)
ABA Model Rule 1.6(c). Reasonable efforts to prevent unauthorized disclosure of information relating to a client.

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