In light of the recently-issued guidelines from the Florida Bar concerning lawyers’ website compliance, we became very interested in how social media profiles would be monitored once the six-month moratorium on the enforcement of the website rules, in effect beginning January 1, 2010, is lifted. In particular, we focused our inquiries on two sites: LinkedIn [...]

A recent article in The Florida Bar News brought home the stark realities that lawyers in Florida must face if they want to continue to participate in the online and social media evolution: The Bar’s Standing Committee on Advertising on December 29 approved guidelines to help lawyers meet the Supreme Court’s new rules regulating the [...]