New York Releases Guidance for Attorneys’ Use of Social Media to Offer Service & Communicate with Potential Client
Attorneys in New York may use social media to communicate with potential clients. Guidance
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Law Firm Texting : Impermissible Solicitation or Direct Mail Advertising?
The Florida Bar Committee on Advertising voted 6-1 to answer the texting question by defining a law firm's proposed texting campaign as impermissible solicitation analogous to inappropriate phone calling or telemarketing to attract clients.
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Email Anxiety: Revisiting Client Confidentiality & Communication Via Email
Although email has become a common means of communicating among lawyers and their clients, questions about its viability are once again being addressed as a result of increased incidences of hacking and NSA surveillance. Anxiety
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So, What About LinkedIn Endorsements? LinkedIn & The Attorney Advertising Rules
LinkedIn Endorsements are one of the many attractive features of the professional networking website that have left the population of attorney-LinkedIn users befuddled as to whether they are ethically permitted to engage in such LinkedIn etiquette.
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Breaking News: Florida Joins the Conversation on Advising Clients to “Clean Up” Social Media
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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Three Strikes! Lawyer Lacking Mindful Boundaries is Suspended for Facebook Message
A Kansas attorney has been suspended for 6 months for his inappropriate Facebook message to the unrepresented biological mother in a termination of parental rights case in which the lawyer represented the biological father.
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