Committee on Professional Ethics Topic: The ethical implications of attorney profiles on LinkedIn From the digest: “Attorneys may maintain profiles on LinkedIn, containing information such as education, work history, areas of practice, skills, and recommendations written by other LinkedIn users. A LinkedIn profile that contains only one’s education and current and past employment does not […]
Proposed Opinion 12-0006 is issued now as Formal Opinion 2016-196. Please see here: http://www.technethics.com…. In the proposed Opinion 12-0006, the California Standing Committee on Professional Responsibility opined on “under what circumstances is “blogging” by an attorney subject to the requirements and restrictions of the Rules of Professional Conduct and related provisions of the State Bar […]
On February 10, 2015, the Louisiana Attorney Disciplinary Board recommended a one year suspension for a lawyer who utilized the internet and social media to raise an on-line petition on a matter she litigated and to urge the public to contact two judges (i.e., the judge of the Louisiana proceeding and the one of the Mississippi proceeding). […]
Author answers the question “Is there any ethical prohibition on counsel advising the client to change her privacy settings to be more restrictive, that is, to limit or deny access to certain social media account information?” The full text is available at http://www.newyorklegalethics… New York Rules of Professional Conduct: 1.1; 3.4(a)(1) Mentioned ethic opinions: New […]
Professional Ethics Committee of the Florida Bar Topic: “A Florida Bar member has asked the committee regarding the ethical obligations on 4 advising clients to “clean up” their social media pages before litigation is filed to remove 5 embarrassing information that the lawyer believes is not material to the litigation matter” From the opinion: In […]
YourABA 2014 The article discusses the following topics: Email: To encrypt or not to encrypt? Reference to ABA Formal Opinion 99-413, 11-459 and 11-460; North Carolina Opinion 2012-5 (2012) Portable devices. Reference to California State Bar Opinion 2010-179 Cloud Computing. Reference to Alaska Opinion 2014-3; Washington state bar Opinion 2215 (2012); California State Bar Interim Opinion 11-0004 […]
On December 5, 2014, the Kansas Supreme Court suspended for 6 months an attorney who sent a Facebook “emotional blackmail” message to a unrepresented party. The sanctioned lawyer represented a biological father opposed to the adoption of his daughter. The attorney sent a Facebook message to the 18-year-old biological mother, who was not represented by counsel, […]
On November 21, 2014 the hearing board of the Illinois Registration and Disciplinary Commission has recommended a 3-year suspension for an Illinois patent lawyer who blogged about corruption in the probate court. In re JoAnne Marie Denison. Among the others, she was charged with “making a statement the lawyer knows to be false or with reckless […]
(podcast with transcript) ABA Journal, Dec. 1, 2014 From the article: “Social media is an easy (and often free) tool that litigators can use to share their clients’ stories. But how much is too much, and what if you post something that you’ll regret later? In this month’s Asked and Answered podcast, we speak with […]
In October 2014, Kroll Ontrack issued a year-end survey questioning 550 law firms and corporate e-discovery professionals about their everyday practice to determine e-discovery trends in the past 12 months. According to the survey, 2014 saw an increase in the use of predictive coding in e-discovery matters: forty percent of the 550 interviewed law firms […]