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Seyfarth reportedly lays off 40 lawyers and several staffers

May 17, 2017, 8:50 am CDT

How a Chinese-American family challenged school segregation in 1920s Mississippi (podcast)

May 17, 2017, 8:41 am CDT

Judge sanctions New York City for lawyer's 'plethora' of deposition objections

May 17, 2017, 8:00 am CDT

Napping pods are well-received at this BigLaw firm

May 17, 2017, 7:30 am CDT

ABA files amicus brief in transgender school bathroom case

May 17, 2017, 7:00 am CDT

Avvo wins default $2 million judgment against alleged creators of fraudulent imitation site

May 16, 2017, 5:27 pm CDT

Trump reportedly asked Comey to shut down Flynn probe; is it obstruction?

May 16, 2017, 5:02 pm CDT

Judge allows suit claiming Conan O'Brien and his team stole comedy writer's jokes

May 16, 2017, 2:26 pm CDT

Marketing experts: Morgan Lewis won't be hurt by SNL's treatment of its Trump tax letter

May 16, 2017, 12:46 pm CDT

Cartoon Poll: Which caption needs a closer inspection?

May 16, 2017, 12:35 pm CDT

Bill Cosby explains why he doesn't plan to testify in sex assault trial

May 16, 2017, 11:36 am CDT

Former prostitute wins $1.7M verdict against lawyer for privacy invasion

May 16, 2017, 10:57 am CDT

Drake University announces law school scholarship program with three HBCUs

May 16, 2017, 9:47 am CDT

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Question of the Week

Do you communicate with clients on social media?

This week, we noted that a Nebraska lawyer was suspended over the nonspecific nature of his replies to his client's messages sent via Facebook.

Some readers' comments to this story on Facebook were surprised the lawyer was communicating with a client on Facebook at all, while others point out that for better or worse, it's often clients starting these social media exchanges with their counsels--this is how they want to communicate.

So this week, we'd like to ask you: Do you communicate with clients on social media? If you object to it, how do you handle clients who send you social media messages? Do you communicate with potential clients via a law firm account on Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter and then take client communications to another platform?

Answer in the comments.

Read the answers to last week's question: How do you guard your personal data?

Featured answer:

Posted by aliaslawyer: "I do my work via VPN, use duckduckgo as my search engine ... but have "embraced" tracking the same way I 'embraced' tracking back when they did it with magazine subscriptions--for every search I do, I try to search for something unrelated that I am absolutely not interested in. (We all have downtime on hold, etc. for that!)"