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Legal blogging group highlights for October 8 - 14, 2010

By Helen Pitlick

The LinkedIn Legal Blogging Group surpassed 4,500 members this week, and I'm thrilled with the level of discussion on topics related to blogging and social media. A partner at a Seattle firm wonders if it is ok to blog or tweet during a jury trial. Members shared relevant blog posts, comments and stories. Most looked down on the practice of participating in social media during a trial. In the words of one member, "it is rude, unprofessional and most of all taking you away from your job as lawyer in the court." A Denver, CO attorney put himself in the client's shoes. "If i were a client, i would not want info about my on-going trial being shared by my lawyer." Others provided a more lawyerly answer: it depends. There are other variables not stated in the original question...continue to full post

Full post as published by Real Lawyers : Have Blogs on October 14, 2010 (boomark / email).