"How Does It Feel To Be On Your Own" When Border Agents Ask For Access To The Information In Your Electronic Devices?

At this panel presentation, you will be listening to and interacting with four attorneys with long experience in the legal, organizational and technical aspects of the limited powers of the government to gather information without a warrant; the 1st Amendment, 4th Amendment and Privacy rights of U.S. Citizens, Residents and others people entering the United States of America; and the obligation of attorneys to protect their clients' confidential information.

This short paper is about all lawyers' ethical obligation to protect the confidential information of their clients. While we all have a sense of the Lawyer Ethics Rules concerning attorney-client privilege, this paper takes you one step away from the minutia of those rules and interpretations of how to respond to information requests from government officials under different circumstance.