Legal Ethics in the Electronic Age
1 hour
The electronic age brings many complexities to traditional ethics and compliance obligations. Ranging from professional standards requirements, to tax compliance, to Corporations law, to website and email content. David Marks KC and Adrian Cartland discuss a number of interesting and practical ethical issues that confront practitioners including:
- How an email can cost you $20,000;
- The surprising places you need to provide details of your corporate practice;
- Whether you can swear oath on an iPad; and
- Does GPT-3, Google, or just your website constitute legal services.
David W Marks KC
TEP, CTA, is a commercial silk on Hemmant’s List, Brisbane. He has a large practice in tax and anything on the Chancery side.
He has an ongoing interest in professional affairs and has chaired 3 hearings as a member of STEP’s Disciplinary Panel (which still pegs him as a novice, given the long service of other members of the DP).
He also serves the professions through committee work and ad hoc submissions for the Law Council, STEP, TTI, and BAQ.
Adrian Cartland
Adrian Cartland TEP, the 2017 Young Lawyer of the Year, has worked as a tax lawyer in top tier law firms as well as boutique tax practices. He is now the Principal of Cartland Law, a boutique tax and commercial law firm located in Adelaide, Australia. He specialises in devising novel solutions to complex trust, equity, partnership and contract law issues and transactions. He is experienced in all the State taxes, particularly stamp duty and land tax, and advises across the full range of Federal taxes.
Adrian is known for his innovative advice and ideas and also for his entertaining and insightful professional speeches.
