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New York Bar May Crack Down on Blogging Lawyers

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the barred-from-blogging dept.

An anonymous reader writes "While you might not guess it from watching late night TV, advertisements by lawyers are regulated by a web of regulations intended to protect potential clients from deceptive claims in such ads. Generally, these rules require lawyers to submit their ads to a review board, often with a filing fee paid with each new advertisement. The New York bar has proposed new rules which would define blogging as advertising. Should these rules be enacted, any New York lawyer who blogs on any legal topic in New York would be required to submit any new blog post to the New York Bar for review. For New York lawyers who write frequently updated blogs, this could force them to make multiple (and potentially expensive) reports to the New York Bar every single day."

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  1. Or... by Reverend528 · · Score: 4, Funny
    this could force them to make multiple (and potentially expensive) reports to the New York Bar every single day.

    Or they could just stop blogging and do the job i'm paying them $100/hr to do.

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    1. Re:Or... by EatHam · · Score: 4, Funny
      And lawyers don't have off-hours?
      No, they bill 84 hours per day.
    2. Re:Or... by cpt+kangarooski · · Score: 2, Funny

      Pft. That's just during the week. On the weekends I like to take some time off, so I only bill 60 hours a day.

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    3. Re:Or... by tehcyder · · Score: 2, Funny
      Moral? It never hurts to have an excellent lawyer think he owes you more than he does :-)
      Moral no. 2? Don't assume lawyers don't read slashdot.

      Yours sincerely, Gary.

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  2. To blog or not to blog by robyannetta · · Score: 2, Funny
    The New York bar has proposed new rules which would define blogging as advertising.

    Yeah, I'm tired of searching out Lawyer's blogs to see who has the most annoying 1-800-ASK-____ phone number because late night TV doesn't show me enough of them.

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  3. How many can the bar handle? by also-rr · · Score: 2, Funny

    There are an insane number of lawyers in New York. If 1% of them sent in a blog post check request every day for a week you probably wouldn't be able to stand in the bar associations hall and USPS would be profitable again. They might even be able to put some of those blue mailboxes back on the streets again.

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  4. Re:Missing the point by garcia · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why doesn't the Bar just subscribe to RSS feeds of the blogs?

  5. New York Bar May Crack Down on Blogging Lawyers by phantomfive · · Score: 4, Funny

    Did anyone else see this headline and think it was talking about some bar-room brawl aimed at lawyers that spread all over new york, then want to join in? Pass the bud and punch another lawyer!!

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  6. Help me! by jav1231 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I want to care about lawyers getting screwed but I'm too busy getting giddy over the thought of it.

  7. Another stuffy oganization fears Internet's power by vinn01 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Information flowing without our control! The horror.

    -Nothing to see here, move along. You've seen this story before.

  8. What will this mean... by ubermiester · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...for the Bob Loblaw Law Blog

  9. Ha! by ballwall · · Score: 1, Funny

    Finally, a legal situation where lawyers lose. Karma's a bitch.

    Usually they're the only ones that come out ahead...

  10. Re:Misleading article by FLEB · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's settled, then. What we need is a renegade lawyer on the edge. Two days from retirement. His partner's dead, his wife left him for a terrorist kidnapper, and he's out for justice... First Amendment justice. And yes... oh, yes... he's blogging.

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