Lawyers and law firms are rapidly adopting social media to market themselves and connect with peers. These are new tools. We are all trying to figure out how to use them. Just to make it more difficult, the tools themselves are rapidly evolving as we are learning how to use them. Some lawyers are doing [...]
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Social Media and Your Compliance Program
Bill Piwonka, Amanda Mayhew and Rodica Buzescu from EthicsPoint gave a webinar on social media and compliance. These are my notes: The presentation started with a user poll on the approach to social media at the attendees’ organizations: 27% block all social media sites 42% block a few social media sites only 29% allow all [...]
Advertising Limitations for Investment Advisers on Social Networking Sites
While FINRA has a very strict limitation on advertisements focusing on procedures, investment advisers have a principles driven approach to limitations on advertising. To start, an advertisement is any communication addressed to more than one person that offers (1) analysis concerning a security, (2) any information to used in making a determination to buy to [...]
Ethics and Facebook
Can a lawyer hire a third person to send a “friend request” to a witness? According to an opinion from the Philadelphia Bar Association’s Professional Guidance Committee the answer is no. Although the information on someone’s Facebook profile is discoverable, a lawyer can’t try to access the page through deception. Although imperfect, I liked this [...]
Martindale-Hubbell Connected – My Thoughts
I have been a member of the Martindale-Hubbell Connected community for several months. I met John Lipsey, Vice President, Corporate Counsel Services for LexisNexis in September at a speaking engagement on Social Networking for Lawyers. John told the story of why Connected would be a great resource for lawyers. The lure of Connected is the [...]
Online Social Networking: Is It a Productivity Bust or Boon?
I recently had an article on Faceblocking published in the March 2009 issue of Law Practice magazine: Online Social Networking: Is It a Productivity Bust or Boon for Law Firms? Steve Matthews and I conducted an informal poll to see if we could confirm that law firms were blocking access to social networking sites. Our [...]
In Case You Missed The Webinar. . .
Here is the archive of the webcast for you to watch at your leisure. You can also see the live commentary on the webcast that happened on Twitter: Twitter/ #SecuritiesD. You can also get the materials from the webcast.
Can Facebook Get You Into Legal Trouble?
Kim S. Nash writing for CIO.com: How Text Messaging and Facebook Can Get You in Legal Trouble. The article focusing on the electronic discovery pitfalls of the ever-changing and expanding ways we communicate. One thing is clear, banning access to social networking platforms is not effective. Even if you ban access in the workplace, your [...]
Facebook and Airlines
British Airways and Virgin Atlantic both ran into trouble when their employees posted nasty remarks about their customers on Facebook. This raises the question about whether the companies did enough to educate their employees about the proper use of social networking. See: The Economist: Losing Face The Guardian: Virgin Sacks 13 Over Facebook ‘chav’ Remarks [...]
JD Supra Expands its Reach to Facebook and Twitter
This post originally appeared in my old blog, KM Space. I was one of the founding contributors to JD Supra. I was intrigued by the idea of a collective repository of legal documents. Intrigued enough that I was also a top ten contributor for a while. One of criticisms was that a mere online repository [...]
