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Status Update: Service Via Facebook and LinkedIn Endorsements

by Jan Jacobowitz in Advertising Rules, Facebook, LinkedIn, Professionalism, Social Media. Posted May 29, 2013

We have previously posted on Facebook service and LinkedIn Endorsements, but note that the conversation continues with terrific updates on Facebook service from Michael B. Pullano and Matthew G. Laver at The Legal Intelligencer and on LinkedIn by Robert Ambrogi at LawSites.

Judge’s Facebook Friendship Challenged in Texas Criminal Case

by Danielle Singer in Facebook, Social Media. Posted May 18, 2013

The Court of Appeals for the Fifth District of Texas joins a small number of appellate courts to opine on the propriety of a judge’s use of Facebook. Friendship

Fed. Rule Civ. Pro. 4(f)(3) authorizes service through Facebook?

by RossMilitello in Facebook, News, Social Media. Posted March 28, 2013

Last week, in a case where the FTC accused an Indian call center of a scam that tricked U.S. citizens into paying to fix phony computer problems, U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer ruled that U.S. government lawyers representing the FTC can serve legal documents on a group of defendants in India through the social networking site Facebook. Rule

Court Reprimands Attorney for “Not Liking” Class Action Settlement on his Facebook Page

by Michael Greenfield in Facebook, Professionalism, Social Media. Posted February 26, 2013

Michigan attorney Majed Moughni was ordered to remove all references to a class action settlement with McDonald’s from his Facebook page. Court

We Can’t Be “Friends,” But Can We at Least “Connect”? Or Will Florida “Connect” With the New ABA Opinion?

by Andrew Williams in Facebook, LinkedIn, Social Media. Posted February 22, 2013

As we recently posted, three years ago, the Florida Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee (JEAC) issued an ethics opinion that announced that a judge may not be “friends” on social media with a lawyer who may appear before the judge in court.

Same Rules, Different Application: The ABA Formally Opines on Judges Using Social Media

by Jan Jacobowitz in Facebook, LinkedIn, Professionalism, Social Media. Posted February 21, 2013

The ABA released Formal Opinion 462 today and joins many of the states that have commented on whether judges should participate in social media. (See our prior posts here, here, and here.) Rules

BREAKING NEWS! Florida Supreme Court Says “NO” to Opining on Whether Judges and Attorneys can be Facebook Friends

by Danielle Singer in Facebook, LinkedIn, Social Media. Posted February 17, 2013

The Florida Supreme Court announced Thursday that it would not settle the dispute over whether judges can be Facebook friends with attorneys that may appear before them.

Judges and Attorneys Should Think Twice Before Clicking “Add Friend”

by Daniel Ilani in Facebook, Social Media. Posted February 11, 2013

The issue of judges in social media has generated significant talk amongst the legal ethics community in recent years.

To Friend or Not to Friend . . .

by Danielle Singer in Facebook, Social Media. Posted January 31, 2013

“Where the presiding judge in a criminal case has accepted the prosecutor assigned to the case as a Facebook “friend,” would a reasonably prudent person fear that he could not get a fair and impartial trial, so that the defendant’s motion for disqualification should be granted?”