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What is the ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20 considering re law blogs?

By Kevin

As I shared yesterday, the ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20 has taken no action to date limiting a lawyer's use of blogs, Twitter, Facebook, and other online client development tools. If the Commission does take any action, and it's far from clear that it will, it's going to be a few years before we'll see any amendments to the ABA's Model Rules of Professional Conduct. The Commission outlined the matters it's considering in its Paper of September 20 (pdf). What is the ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20 considering re law blogs? Not much. From the Paper: Under what circumstances should the Model Rules of Professional Conduct govern a lawyer?s participation in blogs, given that such activities often have both an advertising and non-advertising function?Should the Commission draft a policy statement for the House of Delegates to consider or a white paper that sets out certain guidelines regarding lawyers? use of blogging? Alternatively, or in addition, should the Commission propose amendments to Model Rules 1...continue to full post

Full post as published by Real Lawyers : Have Blogs on November 09, 2010 (boomark / email).