SACRAMENTO Facebooking lawyers beware. Sharing and celebrating a legal victory with your e-friends is fine. But highlighting that win while simultaneously asking “Who’s next?” could get you in trouble.
That’s the stand of the State Bar’s Standing Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct. In a recently released formal opinion, the committee warned that professional rules governing legal advertising and communicating “are not relaxed merely because such compliance might be more difficult or awkward in a social media setting.”
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