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WSBA Ethics Opinion on . . . Avvo
I missed this when writing about the Washington State Bar’s new ethics opinion regarding online lead generation, but the bar has also issued an opinion on attorneys participating in an unnamed service that sounds…
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Defining “Commercial Speech”
At last week’s annual meeting of the ABA Forum on Communications Law (in Scottsdale, which is an oh-so-lovely trade for Seattle in early February), there was a fascinating plenary session on something near and dear…
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WSBA Ethics Opinion re Online Lead Generation
The Washington State Bar (of which I am a member) has issued an ethics opinion finding that attorneys can, generally speaking, participate in online lead generation services. While it’s good to see the WSBA…
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End Occupational Licensing . . . For Lawyers Too?
This New York Times article starts out with some well-deserved gushing over how Uber has disrupted the incumbent taxicab industry, but goes on to note the increasing skepticism over occupational licensing in general. The…
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California to Issue Ethics Opinion on Lawyer Blogging
**Updated 2/24/16: The Bar has issued its proposed opinion, which addresses most – but not all – of the concerns I’ve identified below.** The California State Bar is seeking comment on a proposed ethics…
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Time to Gut the Ad Rules
Avvo recently submitted its comments to the ABA’s “Future of Legal Services” Commission, and I wanted to highlight one of the specific suggestions we made: Get rid of most attorney advertising regulation. Or more specifically,…
