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State Ethics rules to bar blogs? Horse pucky

By Kevin OKeefe

I remember when lawyer blogs, followed by the mass media, were a buzz a year or two ago that New York's proposed legal ethics rules would bar lawyers from publishing blogs. There was nothing to it. A spokesman for the NY courts acknowledged they never even considered blogs in shaping the rules. Nothing in New York's original proposed rules nor the ultimately passed rules effected blogs in any way. Then there was the Kentucky lawyer who blogged away that Kentucky's ethics rules were going to require him to submit each blog post to the bar at the cost of $75. Other than a bunch of blogging on the issue from lawyers across the country who had nothing better to do that week, nothing came of it. Then there was a request from California lawyers that I join a committee to shape California ethic's rules governing blogs...continue to full post

Full post as published by Real Lawyers : Have Blogs on November 25, 2008 (boomark / email).