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NLJ: Lawyer discipline for online misbehavior

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

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On lawyers' ability to screw up on the Internet, see Lawyers' Ethical Stumbles Increase Online by Tresa Baldas on NLJ: It's not as if lawyers never misbehaved before. But now they're making the same old mistakes -- soliciting for sex, slamming judges, talking trash about clients -- online, leaving a digital trail for bar counsel to follow. Legal ethics expert Michael Downey said lawyers' tendency to be risk-averse seems to fade away on the internet. "They're disclosing confidences, talking about pending matters, they take potshots ... like everyone else," said Downey, immediate past chairman of the American Bar Association's Ethics and Technology Committee and a member of the ABA Center for Professional Responsibility.

Full post as published by Law Of Criminal Defense on May 11, 2010 (boomark / email).

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