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Lawyers Get Cyberstalked, via Twitter

By Robert J. Ambrogi

It is only Jan. 4, but we already have a contender for strangest social-media story of the year. It involves a California man who used Twitter to retaliate against a lawyer who angered him and who eventually broadened his Twitter-based cyber-vendetta to include an ever-growing list of lawyers he followed and harassed under the name @asshatlawyer. As Mark Bennett explains at Defending People, it all started after he wrote a post criticizing a California criminal defense lawyer for using a network of fictional Twitter accounts to send traffic to her Web site, where she was scraping other lawyers' content without their permission. All of this was being done for the lawyer -- without her full understanding, it seems -- by a former client, Wayne Conley. Conley took over management of his lawyer's Web site after he was dishonorably discharged from the U.S. Army after being convicted in a general court martial of instigating and participating in the gang rape of an unconscious soldier and obstructing justice. Bennett's criticism angered Conley, who accused Bennett and other lawyers of destroying the California lawyer's reputation. Conley embarked on a vendetta against Bennett and others, posting comments on his and other blogs and on...

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