In this article, Jon Bloor looks at the Law Society’s recently published guidance on the use of social media by lawyers. Click here to join the debate on his PeninsuLawyer blog.

I wrote briefly last year about the practice note on social media issued by the Law Society at the end of December. I’m sure there will be some commentators who bemoan the fact that the Law Society “just doesn’t get social media…” and that any kind of rules ignore the fact that we are living in a world of personal branding and ‘thought leadership’.