Greedy Trial Lawyer
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Category: In Your Face
I am not sure if this blog could be categorized as a type of advertising. For one thing, I do not reveal my name or the name of my law firm. For another, I disclaim any interest in generating clients as a result of the blog.
But, there are many attorneys who choose to blog under their own names and probably hope their effort leads to an increase in their practice. I believe their blogs are beneficial to the public and to the legal profession. Apparently, some state bar associations think the blogs are a type of advertising which, therefore, requires pre-posting review and approval of content.
Law and More covers the matter with this post (which probably did not go through any review process):
Attorney Blogs & Efficient Markets
No newsflash, attorney and all other professional blogs are the way to develop new business, enhance a brand name, expand networks and bypass the traditional media gatekeepers, ranging from THE WALL STREET JOURNAL to THE AMERICAN LAWYER, to get heard. The trick, of course, is that the content got to be something readers want and maybe even need. Like every other product and service out there, blogs are subject to the rule of efficient markets. We all have had the experience of posting stale or self-indulgent content and our numbers tank.Well, for some reason, state bar associations - think New York - don't understand how efficient the marketplace has been and will continue to be in regulating weblogs. Proposed New York rules seek to classify weblogs as a type of advertising. That means that attorneys would have to file this digital content with the state powers-that-be. Given the exponential growth of blogging, including in the legal profession, those state powers-that-be will be busy bees with all that reviewing. So, attorney bloggers can't expect an okay in timely fashion from those reviewers.
When and if someone demands the right to review and approve my posts they will discover how quickly a greedy trial lawyer can become a greedy first amendment trial lawyer.
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