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High Past Time to Amend the Attorney Ad Rules
Faithful readers of this blog will know that I have long lamented the scabrous attorney advertising rules. Larded down with a centuries-old accretion of quaint prohibitions, the rules are doing nobody any favors. However,…
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February 2017 Notes: Keeping Your Cool
Airport Lawyers. If early results are any indication, the Trump administration will be keeping lots of lawyers busy. Besides the usual change-of-administration drama, the early days of this go-round saw the middle east travel…
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Publishing Article = Not Commercial Speech
Another 11th Circuit case, also involving doctors. Rebecca Tushnet has the details, but it’s another of those relatively-rare cases dealing with the question of whether something that isn’t a straightforward advertisement can be commercial…
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Good Reversal in “Docs v. Glocks” Case
The 11th Circuit in Florida has just issued its en banc ruling in the infamous “Docs v. Glocks” case. This is something like the third or fourth decision in this case, which addresses the…
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Fake News, Hate Speech, and the First Amendment
I launched this blog as a place to keep all of my notes and thoughts on the professional regulation of attorney speech, a topic largely (but not entirely) informed by the commercial speech doctrine.…
