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New York May Define Law Blogs As Advertising according to a post at WebProNews.

Another indication that the law is struggling to keep up with technology in a useful way, proposed restrictions in New York could prevent lawyers from setting blogs about law.

Greg Beck, who runs a legal blog called Consumer Law and Policy Blog reports the new restrictions would regard any public communication by a lawyer about a lawyer as advertisements. Therefore they must follow legal advertising rules.

The rules require phrases like "Attorney Advertising" to appear on the blog and for a hard copy of each post (and subsequent changes, which would include comments) to be put on file for a year and sent to the state.

But Beck points out that the new rules contain a definition of advertising so broad that websites, IMs, and emails could even be considered as public communication.

To be on the safe side since my blog can be accessed by New Yorkers, here is my required public warning - ATTORNEY ADVERTISING.

Now my question regarding the warning - Is everything I ever say in public also required to be somehow designated ATTORNEY ADVERTISING?

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