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DC 37 MELS Cybersecurity

NY Rules of Professional Conduct (2025)

Comment 8:

To maintain the requisite knowledge and skill, a lawyer should

(i) keep abreast of changes in substantive and procedural law relevant to the lawyer’s practice,

(ii) keep abreast of the benefits and risks associated with technology the lawyer uses to provide services to clients or to store or transmit confidential information, and

(iii) engage in continuing study and education and comply with all applicable continuing
legal education requirements under 22 N.Y.C.R.R. Part 1500."