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Deputy AG reportedly threatened to quit after he was portrayed as instrumental in Comey firing

May 11, 2017, 9:28 am CDT

Former AIG chief can't contest bailout terms, appeals court rules

May 11, 2017, 7:08 am CDT

Former defense attorney sentenced to 10 to 30 years for raping unconscious client

May 10, 2017, 4:50 pm CDT

Family of murdered Texas lawyer wins defamation lawsuit against son of former client

May 10, 2017, 3:48 pm CDT

Persistent journalist arrested while questioning HHS secretary; ACLU sees 'dark day for democracy'

May 10, 2017, 1:52 pm CDT

Do you communicate with clients on social media?

May 10, 2017, 1:45 pm CDT

Black Lives Matter and other groups raise money to bail women out of jail before Mother's Day

May 10, 2017, 12:34 pm CDT

ABA launches study of biases encountered by LGBT-plus and disabled lawyers

May 10, 2017, 11:12 am CDT

ABA announces winners of the 2017 Silver Gavel Awards

May 10, 2017, 11:07 am CDT

Democrats want a special counsel after Comey firing; who decides and who has firing authority?

May 10, 2017, 10:28 am CDT

Vermont Law receives $17 million loan from US Department of Agriculture

May 10, 2017, 9:59 am CDT

Amazon's Alexa can now track billable hours

May 10, 2017, 9:29 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!)"

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