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Ethics of Geo-Targeted Legal Advertising
There was a story awhile ago about some lawyers using geo-targeting technology to target ads to people within hospitals: Digital Ambulance Chasers? Law Firms Send Ads To Patients' Phones Inside ERs. Patients sitting in emergency rooms, at chiropractors' offices and at...
Is Wikipedia A Reliable Legal Authority? (2018 Update)
Back in 2014, a Twitter exchange with Judge Dillard prompted an article on AboveTheLaw discussing the reliability of Wikipedia as a resource.[ref]I would be remiss not to mention that in a bit of I-see-what-you-did-there, shortly after our Twitter exchange and my...
2018 ABA Journal Web 100 Nominations
It's time again for the ABA Journal's Annual Blawg 100 Web 100. The web has moved beyond blogs and the ABA has as well. Starting last year, the ABA Journal's annual listing began to include podcasts, social media, and law firm websites (🤢). Given the dearth of...
Are You a Satiable or Insatiable Lawyer?
I had two interesting conversations this past week with two very different lawyers. One was the founding and managing partner of a firm with 85 lawyers spread across five states. The other is a newly minted partner in a two-man firm in a small town. They had very...