Social Media Marketing and Ethics Blog for Lawyers
The Florida Bar acknowledges that attorneys and law firms are using Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn for both personal use and professional networking. Most importantly, the Bar recognizes that social media pages for individual lawyers that are used solely for social purposes, such as maintaining social contact with family and close friends, are not subject to […]
Facebook is turning to the courts to fight “clickjacking,” according to Mashable. Clickjacking occurs when users are presented with some kind of enticing material, such as a too-good-to-be-true promotion. The clickjackers add code to these links that hide the “like” button in the link itself. Once a user clicks the clickjacking link, the material is instantly […]
Social media plays an important role in marketing for attorneys. Social networks such as Facebook, professional networks such as LinkedIn, and blogging sites such as Twitter provide attorneys with easily accessible avenues to publish, share, and comment on the law, politics, and everyday life. As more attorneys turn to social media for their personal and […]
As a member of the 2010-11 Meritas Leadership Institute class, I had the pleasure of working with a select group of talented attorneys from across the world to investigate and analyze the role of social media in the practice of law. As part of our year long investigation, we prepared The Social Media Guide for Lawyers. The […]
Twitter has to provide the U.S. Department of Justice with all account information for three users who allegedly support WikiLeaks, a federal judge ordered last Wednesday according to Mashable. U.S. District Judge Liam O’Grady denied a motion to suspend previous orders that would allow the DOJ access to the Twitter account information of three people […]
A decision by Massachusetts prosecutors to subpoena the Twitter records of an Occupy Boston activist, as well as records linked to two Twitter hashtags, has free speech advocates up in arms, calling the move a violation of the First Amendment CNN reports. Suffolk County prosecutors demanded that Twitter hand over information posted on the social […]
The Arkansas Supreme Court tossed out a death row inmate’s murder conviction and said he deserves a new trial because a juror tweeted during court proceedings, Yahoo News reports. Erickson Dimas-Martinez appealed his 2010 murder conviction because a juror sent tweets despite the judge’s instruction not to post on the Internet or communicate with anyone about […]
Judges are often faced with the difficult task of juggling privacy interests with a party’s need for discovery of evidence. In the context of social media evidence, that difficulty is magnified because many litigants use social media to chronicle the intimate details of their personal lives, often behind a virtual wall of privacy features. Therefore, […]
A Connecticut judge has ordered lawyers representing a divorcing couple to exchange passwords to their clients’ Facebook and dating websites, the ABA reports. Judge Kenneth Schluger ordered the password exchange in the divorce of Stephen and Courtney Gallion. The judge cautioned in a Sept. 30 order that the exchange should be carried out by the lawyers, […]
A Virginia criminal defense attorney, who blogs about cases he’s worked on, has been reportedly been charged with misconduct by the Virginia State Bar, the ABA reports. The charge comes amid concerns by Virginia bar authorities that the attorney’s blog on his firm’s website is actually an advertisement, rather than an informative news and commentary […]