I came across this headline on Law.com yesterday: Lawyer Got Secretary to Take His CLE Courses, Disciplinary Complaint Contends While online CLE offers attorneys incredible flexibility and convenience, this is not how online CLE should be utilized. Please be advised, that while you may have secretaries and legal assistants create accounts and even sign up for classes, if you do not personally…
The Kentucky Bar Association appears to be the latest regulatory body to examine attorney’s uses of social media – this on the recent release of the ABA’s release of an Issues Paper seeking comments on the use of social media by attorneys. The amendment to the Ethics Rules proposed this week by the Kentucky Bar would extend traditional restrictions on client solicitations…
What has happened to the judiciary? Only a few months ago we had reports that Senior Judge Jack T. Camp had been arrested on drug charges after allegedly taking part in multiple drug induced romps with an Atlanta stripper:[1] “A 67-year-old federal judge’s wild relationship with a stripper started with a lap dance, prosecutors said, and quickly escalated into escapades of prostitution and…
One major topic of discussion this week was a recently released ‘issue paper’ from an ABA technology commission. The issue paper concerned lawyers’ Use of “Internet Based Client Development Tools.” In English – can you ethically use Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, blogs, adwords and other electronic media and methods to promote yourself and your firm online. Some commentators felt this was the death…