The story about what it portrays as a growing use of social media by debt collectors is here.
The story is here.
The Florida Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee indicates that judges may not add lawyers who may appear before the judge as “friends” on a social networking site or permit such lawyers to add the judge as their “friend.” See Opinion No. 2009-20 (November 17, 2009).
The Florida Supreme Court rejected the state bar’s proposed rule amendments on lawyer web site advertising. See In re Amendments to the Rules Regulating the Florida Bar - Rule 4-7.6, Computer Accessed Communications (Feb 27, 2009).
The Florida Bar board of governors has tentatively approved a proposed rule on law firm Web sites that would let lawyers publish client testimonials and claims about their past successes. See law.com article for details.
Florida Ethics Opinion 06-2 states that a lawyer who is sending an electronic document should take care to ensure the confidentiality of all information contained in the document, including metadata. A lawyer receiving an electronic document should not try to obtain information from metadata that the lawyer knows or should know is not intended for the receiving lawyer. A lawyer who inadvertently receives information via metadata in an electronic document should notify the sender of the information’s receipt. (Sept-15-2006)
An article at Law.com, What’s a Little Metadata Mining Between Colleagues? discusses the Florida bar association’s interest in examining meta-data mining issues.
On January 6, the Florida Bar took the position that mining metadata is unethical.
Lawyers may not solicit prospective clients through Internet chat rooms, defined as real time communications between computer users. See Florida Bar Adv. Op. A-00-1 (August 15, 2000).
Florida Bar ethics opinions are available online.
The Florida Rules of Proessional Conduct are available online. The Legal Information Institute offers a separate version.
The Florida Bar Association is available online.
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