Risky Business? | Is a social media policy enough? Do law firms need social-media-insurance?
byMost social media sites are FREE to partakers, right? WELL, “free” may be cutting too fine an edge, because social media is not exactly…
Social Media Policy
Can a Law Firm Become a Social Business?
byHow are you preparing to take your law firm into the “Social Business” era? Perhaps this is the first time you’ve heard the term…
Social Media and Legal Ethics | No New Restrictions, Just Clarification
byThe jury is (almost) in. We do not, thankfully, anticipate a Casey-Anthony-super-sized-post-verdict outrage when the American Bar Association codifies its Commission on Ethics 20/20…
Just Being Social | by Jay Strother for Legal Management March/April Edition
byIf you’re looking for the latest “buzz” about social media ethics and professional responsibility for lawyers (and their employees), I highly recommend Jay Strother’s…
Managing Social Media in Your Law Firm | The Next Big Thing
byWe’ve come a long way, baby! Three years ago, when I founded my company Law Gravity, I talked to a lot of law firms…
Do your law firm employees have a right to free speech on Facebook? Legal Case Filed by NLRB
byLast week the National Labor Relations Board launched a legal case asserting that employees have a right to free speech on Facebook. It announced…
FACEBOOK: FOR BUSINESS
byInstead of just cutting off workplace access to Facebook —the poster child for questionable business networking activity— I suggest you take a step back…
Liablity in Social Media
byI write social media policies and guidelines for law firms. Somewhere near the bottom of the 15 point executive summary I include: “Do not…
Making a Sticky Social Media Policy
byWhether your law firm or organization has two employees or 2000 employees [or partners], having guidelines in place that set the tone for online…
To Block or Not to Block the Social Web at Work.
byDoes blocking access to social networking sites at the office really work? Are social networking sites the only places of risk for companies and law firms on the new social Web?
Do you know that if your partners and employees can access blogs and other sites that allow commenting, reviewing, or streaming content (e.g. news videos or podcasts), via the firm Internet connection, you are, by default, giving them permission to participate in the social web.
Law firms need viable responses to the new way in which people are using the web. Shutting off access to social networking sites isn’t the last decision you’ll make.
So what should law firm leaders do? Here are a few suggestions that I recommend.