It was about two years ago when a man from Ohio put up a Kickstarter to raise $10 to make potato salad and ended up receiving tens of thousands of dollars in donations. I’m sure there were many people who were familiar with this concept before then, but for me that was the first I’d […]
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I had the opportunity last Friday to attend the joint APRL/NOBC program put on during the National Organization of Bar Counsel meeting in Chicago (which also happens at the same time as APRL’s annual meeting, which happens to run at the same time as the ABA Annual Meeting). The joint program focused on APRL’s white […]
I commend to your reading a very well done, thorough, and I think (hope) persuasive report from the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers regarding the subject of lawyer advertising. Although none of us were on the Lawyer Advertising Committee that put this together, several of us on the committee are members of APRL. You can […]
Earlier this week, I wrote about the scariness that can come with understanding another way that lawyers’ fates are tied together when they practice law in the same firm: one lawyer failing to disclose a known problem on a malpractice renewal application could lead to loss of coverage for all of the other lawyers in […]
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Social media and advertising issues
Another bar association has recently issued an ethics opinion over whether/how lawyers can make use of particular types of social media, whether such use constitutes advertising, and related issues. The particular ethics opinion in question was issued March 10, 2015 by the New York County Lawyers Association and deals with LinkedIn. Many of the questions addressed […]