It’s the medium, not the message, that did in Ropers Majeski Kohn & Bentley partner Thomas Clarke Jr. this past week.

By posting on YouTube a video in which he solicited plaintiffs for a class action, the First District Court of Appeal ruled that he’d opened himself up to a defamation suit and can’t use the state’s anti-SLAPP law to ward it off.

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