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Blogging Lawyer Sued for Defamation

By Mark H. Astarita, Esq.

There is an interesting lesson here for bloggers and those who post on blogs. Be careful what you write, since a defamation claim can be brought against you for your postings.The links will take you to the law.com article, and this particular case has a few twists since the blogging lawyer was anonymous when he made the postings, and just so happened to be blogging about a case in which he was involved as a party's in-house counsel.But the facts of the case apply to blogging in general. The attorney said in his blog that plaintiff's counsel conspired with the federal district court clerk to change the date of a filing by a day, in order to give subject matter jurisdiction. It may sound petty, but that is a serious allegation against the attorneys involved and the clerk...continue to full post

Full post as published by SECLaw.com on March 15, 2008 (boomark / email).