Introduction to Legal Ethics and Social Media: Advertising, Communicating With Clients, and Investigative Use
Understanding the Model Rules of Professional Conduct as They Relate to Digital Communications; Avoiding Pitfalls
Recording of a 60-minute CLE video webinar
This CLE webinar will discuss the critical issues relating to the use of social media and legal ethics. The speaker will explore the ABA Model Rules that generally relate to the use of social media and provide tips for how to use these tools and platforms effectively in your practice and avoid misuse or ethics violations.
Outline
- Overview: ways lawyers are using social media
- Familiarity with social media is part of legal competence
- Advertising legal services
- Furnishing legal advice through social media
- Communicating with clients and others
- Preservation and spoliation of digital evidence
- Researching jurors on social media
- Supervision of non-lawyers employed or retained by a lawyer or law firm
- Other issues and key takeaways
Benefits
The panel will discuss these and other key issues:
- What are the key ethical concerns relating to a lawyer’s use of social media?
- What rules of professional conduct govern a lawyer’s use of social media in their practice?
- How is familiarity with social media relevant to a lawyer’s legal competence?
- How can lawyers use social media effectively in their practice and remain compliant with ethical rules?
Faculty
Hilary P. Gerzhoy
Partner
HWG
Ms. Gerzhoy is Vice Chair of the firm’s Legal Ethics and Malpractice Group. She is also the Vice Chair of the... | Read More
Ms. Gerzhoy is Vice Chair of the firm’s Legal Ethics and Malpractice Group. She is also the Vice Chair of the D.C. Bar Rules of Professional Conduct Review Committee, and she is a member of the ABA’s Ethics and Professional Responsibility Committee. Ms. Gerzhoy represents lawyers and firms in disciplinary investigations, prosecutions, and malpractice matters. She has represented lawyers in front of every disciplinary body at the state and federal level in D.C. and Maryland, before the Virginia State Bar, and before the USPTO’s Office of Enrollment and Discipline. She represents lawyers and firms in high stakes arbitrations and litigation, and she counsels lawyers regarding conflicts, advertising, fee disputes, the unauthorized practice of law, attorney departures, lateral moves, law firm partnership agreements, and law firm formations and dissolutions.
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