For many lawyers, blogs have become a popular tool for both marketing and discussion. But their amorphous quality is creating uneasiness about their ethical implications. Many states that are revamping attorney ethics rules are wondering if firm blogs should be regulated as advertising. Law professor Larry Ribstein says that whether blog content is deemed advertising or protected political speech could become the quintessential test of the commercial speech doctrine: "It doesn't get any hazier than blogs."
October 11, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.com
For many lawyers, blogs have become a popular marketing tool to catapult their firms’ names into the World Wide Web. For others, they have become a convenient mechanism for discussing an array of topics from feminism to federalism.
And while many blogs lie somewhere between unabashed advertising and pure political speech, the amorphous quality of these online logs is creating uneasiness about their ethical implications.
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