Hughes Hubbard’s James B. Kobak, Jr. and Ignatius Grande contributed an article in ABI’s Ethics & Professional Compensation Committee’s November newsletter. The article discusses a recent ethics opinion issued by the New York State Bar Association’s Committee on Professional Ethics regarding the ethical debate surrounding content that lawyers or law firms may post to their social media profiles as well as other potential pitfalls of careless social media use. Given the proliferation of social media, a recent ABA survey found that 98% of lawyers on social media were using LinkedIn, Kobak and Grande assert, “In the old days it was enough to look before one leapt. Now it is also necessary to think before one tweets.”
