Legal Ethics and Social Media

While technology has improved the speed and efficiency for providing legal services, one aspect that may be overlooked is how the rapid growth of social media has affected the landscape of almost everything a lawyer may touch—for better or for worse.

Legal Ethics and Social Media: A Practitioner’s Handbook, Second Edition covers all areas of social media from both the attorney’s perspective as well as that of the attorney’s clients. Topics include:

• Being digitally competent
• Representing and advising clients in this digital age
• Judges, courts and legal ethics
• Google, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube
• Attorney advertising and social media
• Preservation and spoliation of digital evidence
• "Facebooking" a jury
• Ethically filtering a response to a negative online comment or review
• Digital assets and much more

In addition, the book includes references to Legal Ethics Advisory Opinions and a Table of Cases. Any lawyer, judge, law student or legal professional who uses social media or has faced obstacles in court with client’s social media activity will find this an invaluable—and essential—tool for their practice or firm.