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Attorneys and clients use these websites for both business and personal reasons, and their use raises ethical concerns, both in how attorneys use the sites and in the advice attorneys provide to clients who use them.

As discussed in Formal Opinion 2014-300 of the Pennsylvania Bar Association Committee on Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility, you will learn how and why the Rules of Professional conduct apply in all of these uses and the ethical concerns raised by social media as to whether attorneys may:

1. Advise clients about the content of the clients’ social networking websites, including removing or adding information.
2. Connect with a client or former client on a social networking website.
3. Contact a represented person through a social networking website.
4. Contact an unrepresented person through a social networking website, or use a pretextual basis for viewing information on a social networking site that would otherwise be private/unavailable to the public.
5. Use information on a social networking website in client-related matters.
6. Whether a client who asks to write a review of an attorney, or who writes a review of an attorney, has caused the attorney to violate any Rule of Professional Conduct.
7. Comment on or respond to reviews or endorsements.
8. Endorse other attorneys on a social networking website.
9. Review a juror’s Internet presence.
10. Connect with judges on social networking website

1 Ethics credit provide

Location:

McNees Wallace & Nurick 9th Floor Conference Center

100 Pine Street

Harrisburg, PA 17101

RSVP to Karen Swaringen at kswaringen@mwn.com

Space is limited.