The Internet is a cool thing. With a few clicks of the mouse, I can order groceries, pay bills, and find just about anyone I need to contact for my work. Unfortunately, it also provides a ready (too ready, perhaps!) platform for clients and nuts to take shots at us for our real or perceived shortcomings. Answering these things “tit for tat” can be fun, but it can also have consequences. A Chicago lawyer recently was disciplined for violating a client’s confidences when she answered a former client’s scurrilous posting on the Avvo employer-rating website.
The lawyer, Betty Tsamis, had represented a fellow in a wrongful-termination case against his former employer, an airline. When Betty did not get the client what he wanted, he posted a scathing review of her on Avvo. The website removed the posting, apparently without his consent, so he reposted it. Betty then posted a riposte where she apparently said that the reason that he had been fired for assaulting a fellow employee was that he had assaulted a fellow employee. I bet that Betty felt good doing that!
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