by Brad Friedman | Social Media |
Source: http://lawyerist.com/social-media-ethics-lawyers-top-5/
The Code of Professional Responsibility, Rule 1.1 Competence provides, “A lawyer shall provide competent representation to a client. Competent representation requires the legal knowledge, skill, thoroughness and preparation reasonably necessary for the representation.” Comments to Rule 1.1 provide, in part, “Competent handling of a particular matter includes inquiry into and analysis of the factual and legal elements of the problem, and use of methods and procedures meeting the standards of competent practitioners.” (more…)
by Brad Friedman | Social Media
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We are constantly trying to think of ways to convince people to overcome their resistance to participating in social networks to make connections and generate referrals for their business. The trick seems to be finding a way to convince attorneys, CPAs and other professionals they are using, at best, 20th century communication/marketing techniques when they could join us in the real world and employ 21st century techniques. (more…)
by Brad Friedman | Cloud Computing
This month’s guest post is written by Thomas Smith. Mr. Smith’s company TechEn enterprises, LLC works with companies to achieve strategic, controlled and managed deployment of Google Apps. (more…)
by Brad Friedman | Social Media
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There are a great number of people on Twitter these days. Generally, one doesn't think of attorneys as being among those that Tweet. So, you may be surprised to learn many Internet-savvy attorneys are finding more and more ways to use Twitter and other social networks like LinkedIn. Two examples: “Tweagle” is a LinkedIn Group for lawyers using Twitter, and the LinkedIn Group “Legal Blogging” is populated by attorneys who have personal blogs or write for a law firm blog. (more…)
by Brad Friedman | Social Media
In August, Twitter, the four-year-old micro-blogging service flew past MySpace in unique visitors to become the No. 3 social networking service in the world, according to new data from comScore Inc. Twitter recorded almost 96 million unique visitors in August, up 76% from August 2009, comScore said. During the same period of time, MySpace dropped 17% during the same period, to 95 million unique visitors in August. (more…)
