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Friday, March 13, 2015 | 8:30AM - 12:30PM

4 Ethics CLE Credits

Join us for this important program on using social media to market your practice without falling into any ethical quagmires.  The program will feature top speakers on social media ethics who will address avoiding ethical pitfalls within your website, blogs, LinkedIn, Facebook as well as best practices.

We will focus on the application of advertising rules to LinkedIn, specifically:
• NYS Rule 7.1: False or misleading statements
• Disclaimers on LinkedIn profiles (Rule 7.1 and 7.3)
• Solicitation (Rule 7.3)
• Specialization and “expertise” (Rule 7.1 and 7.3, NYSBA Opinion 972)
• LinkedIn Skills and Endorsements – reciprocal recommendations                       (Rule 7.2) and other issues
• Client recommendations on LinkedIn
• Confidentiality – what you can and cannot say about clients and cases on LinkedIn; confidentiality issues in communicating with clients/potential clients electronically (Rule 1.6)
• Unauthorized practice of law and inadvertent attorney-client relationships (Rules 1.18 and Rule 5.5)
• Who lawyers can and should connect to on social media

There will also be a discussion on the use of Facebook, including:
•“Friend” requests – which requests should and should not be accepted
• What ethical issues are there when “friending”
• Ethical considerations in researching juror’s, parties’, and witness’s social media presence
• What can and can’t attorneys advise clients about incriminating social media postings

There will also be comment from the Grievance Committee concerning the Committee’s perspective as to how attorneys are getting into trouble with advertising rules using social media.

FACULTY:

Chair: Annamarie Bondi-Stoddard

Pegalis & Erickson LLC

Fred Cohen, Esq.
Founder, Amicus Creative Media, LLC

Stacey Sharpelletti, Esq.
Assistant Counsel to the Grievance Committee for the 10th Judicial District

Allison Shields, Esq.
President, Legal Ease Consulting

Aaron Zerykier, Esq.  
Farrell Fritz, PC
Secretary of the Social Media Committee, Commercial and Federal Litigation Section of the NYSBA

Not available to attend the program that day? No worries! You can order this great CLE program on CD or DVD here.

Holiday Inn Plainview
215 Sunnyside Blvd
Plainview, NY 11803

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