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NY Times misses boat on legal ethics versus lawyers online activity

By Kevin OKeefe

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By now, a lot of you have seen the New York Times' national law reporter John Schwartz's Sunday story entitled 'A Legal Battle for Lawyers - Online Attitude vs. Rules of the Bar.' What a disservice to the American lawyer and the public we serve. With thousands of lawyers making a positive difference in other's lives through the effective use of the Internet, Schwartz uses as the basis for his story isolated incidents where lawyers have run into trouble because of ill-advised blog posts. Hot headed Florida lawyer, Sean Conway, 'was steamed at a Fort Lauderdale judge, so he did what millions of angry people do these days: he blogged about her, saying she was an ?Evil, Unfair Witch.?Illinois lawyer, Kristine A. Peshek, 'wrote posts to her blog in 2007 and 2008 that referred to one jurist as ?Judge Clueless? and thinly veiled the identities of clients and confidential details of a case, including statements like, ?This stupid kid is taking the rap for his drug-dealing dirtbag of an older brother because ?he?s no snitch...continue to full post

Full post as published by Real Lawyers : Have Blogs on September 16, 2009 (boomark / email).