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 […]
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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 […]