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Overview
Why You Should Attend
Lawyers, clients, opposing parties, jurors, judges, witnesses, politicians, investors and institutions use social media every day. This program will help you better represent yourself and your clients using these technologies – and stay on the right side of legal ethics in your personal and professional lives.
PLI’s outstanding faculty will discuss cutting edge legal ethics issues that are relevant to social media use, review ethics decisions by regulators and courts relating to lawyers’ social media activities – and give you practical tips when using social media and emerging online tools.
What You Will Learn
After completing this program, participants will be able to:
• Identify key ethics issues when using social media and other platforms
• Understand potential obligations to use social media in the pursuit of relevant information in legal matters, while avoiding activities that may violate legal ethics and professionalism expectations
• Locate the relevant ethics rules and guidance for easy reference after the program
• Learn how other lawyers think about and use social media
• Become an early adopter of relevant technology
Who Should Attend
All attorneys and allied professionals who use or advise clients on social media and need to understand or are otherwise interested in the professional and legal ethical risks and benefits of social media. So basically, everyone.
Program Level: Overview
Prerequisites: An interest in the professional and legal ethical risks and benefits of social media.
Advanced Preparation: None