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Supreme Court lets stand opinion striking down voter ID law as discriminatory

May 15, 2017, 9:19 am CDT

Not competent in basic tech? You could be overbilling your clients — and be on shaky ethical ground

May 15, 2017, 8:21 am CDT

Fired BigLaw associate claims firm violated implied ban on firing people who raise ethics concerns

May 15, 2017, 7:00 am CDT

Law student with felony record and Skadden fellowship denied character and fitness recommendation

May 12, 2017, 4:27 pm CDT

Cop charged with Laquan McDonald's murder must attend hearings, despite protest concerns, says court

May 12, 2017, 3:17 pm CDT

Former Foley & Lardner partner is charged with insider trading

May 12, 2017, 1:12 pm CDT

Did Attorney General Sessions violate his recusal pledge by participating in Comey firing?

May 12, 2017, 12:10 pm CDT

Senators want answers from deputy attorney general on Comey firing

May 12, 2017, 10:54 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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