After Client Adoption Files Blow Into Public View, Court Reprimands Attorney

[Ken Pope <kspope () mac com>]

> From "After Client Adoption Files Blow Into Public View, Court
Reprimands Attorney" by Leigh Jones in *The National Law Journal*
October 07, 2010, at:
<http://bit.ly/bUrlzV>.

[begin excerpts]

An Indiana adoption lawyer whose client files were scattered in the wind
after his adult children left boxes of them beside a recycling bin has
received a public reprimand.

<snip>

The court noted that it was the third time Litz had received a public
reprimand.

Litz directed his two children to take about 14 boxes of client files he
wanted to discard to a local recycling bin, according to the decision.

Finding that the bins were full, they left the boxes on the ground
beside the bins and did not tell Litz.

The wind later blew the tops off the boxes and sent some of the papers
flying into public view.

<snip>

The court found that even if the documents had been placed into the
bins, client confidentiality could have been breached.

"[T]he information would've been available for opportunists to retrieve,
with potentially devastating consequences to the clients," the court wrote.

[end excerpts]

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