The American Bar Association has issued new guidance clarifying that lawyers may be ethically required to provide former clients with important information rela ...

Increasingly, clients of CPA firms impose confidentiality agreements as a precondition to engaging the firm to perform professional services. These may appear in the form of a separate nondisclosure ...

It is well-established that attorneys and their clients are entitled to private and protected communications. But what level of protections are available when an accountant is used in an engagement to ...

Customers rely on brokerages, advisors, accountants and even insurance agents to keep their information safe, secure and confidential. Well before the stay-at-home mandates of the pandemic, state ...

Charles Schwab is taking one of its former reps to court, accusing him of being a “disloyal employee” who allegedly departed wielding trade secrets on thousands of Schwab clients. Schwab filed a ...

Confidentiality is a key consideration in any commercial endeavour. To retain a competitive edge in the market, a business will often do its utmost to maintain the confidentiality of client ...

Two recent ethics opinions, one from the ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility (the “ABA Opinion”) and one from the New York State Bar Association Committee on Professional ...

A survey from the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) asked state-registered small and mid-sized investment adviser firms how they use websites and technology, such as tablets ...