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Breaking News: Florida Joins the Conversation on Advising Clients to “Clean Up” Social Media

by in Facebook, Florida Bar, legal ethics, LinkedIn, News, Social Media, social Media Discovery, Technology, Twitter. Posted January 28, 2015
The Florida Bar’s Professional Ethics Committee has just issued Proposed Advisory Opinion 14-1, which discusses the ethical obligations that an attorney has when advising a client to “clean up” the client’s social media pages before litigation is filed. Breaking
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Tweet

A Prosecutor’s Right to Tweet?

by in Professionalism, Social Media, Twitter. Posted January 22, 2014
On December 17, 2013, the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, held that a prosecutor’s public twitter comments—even where arguably inappropriate and improper pursuant to the Missouri Supreme Court Rules of Professional Conduct—do not justify reversal of a verdict when there is no evidence that the jury is aware of or influenced by those comments. Tweet
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Indiana

Indiana Supreme Court: Attorney’s Criticism of Judge is “Good Faith Professional Advocacy”

by in First Amendment, News, Professionalism. Posted November 18, 2013
In Indiana, Rule 8.2(a) prohibits the making of statements that “the lawyer knows to be false or with reckless disregard as to its truth or falsity concerning the qualifications or integrity of a judge, adjudicatory officer or public legal officer, or of a candidate for election or appointment to judicial or legal office.”
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