Ethically Building and Protecting Your Online Reputation During COVID and Beyond

On-demand

Ethically Building and Protecting Your Online Reputation During COVID and Beyond

Recorded On 10/06/2020

COURSE DETAILS

Prior to March 2020, it was important for attorneys to learn to ethically build and protect their personal legal brands (their reputations) on line; after that date it became imperative. When 2020 began, no one could have predicted that a worldwide pandemic would profoundly change everything, including the legal industry. The courts closed, offices were shuttered, and lawyers and law firms were scrambling to find a way to work from home. What didn’t change, however, was the need for attorneys to create a legal brand, build it ethically and protect it, but now, it is all done online. This seminar teaches attorneys the ethical methods of building, maintaining and protecting their online reputations.

  • Creating your personal brand;
  • How to determine your target market (that is, who are your ideal clients and referral sources);
  • Ascertaining where they can be found online;
  • Finding the most appropriate tactics and techniques for reaching this audience;
  • How to provide the right information for your audiences to build your reputation;
  • How to get online recommendations;
  • What to do if you find negative comments about yourself online;
  • How to respond so you don’t run afoul of the ethics rules; and
  • Why a defamation lawsuit is your last resort.

But more importantly, this seminar will talk about the ethics issues that accompany the use of social media by attorneys. In fact, there are a myriad of ethics rules that are tied to the use of these sites including (based on NY and NJ Ethics Rules): 1.1, 1.6, 1.8, 1.9, 1.18, 3.6, 5.5, 7.1 – 7.5 and 8.4.

FACULTY

Faculty: Jaimie Field, Esq., The-Rain-Maker

CLE CREDITS

2.5 NY CLE Credits; 2.5 Ethics
 

GENERAL INFORMATION

All Programs include 1 Affirmation and 1 Evaluation Form, and Course Materials.

To receive CLE credit for a program in Online Video Format:

Online Videos contain CLE codes that you must type into a supplied online affirmation form. Submit the online affirmation to the NYCLA CLE Institute to be issued a CLE certificate. We recommend that you watch the video as soon as possible.

We can only issue CLE credit if the law is still current.

Course Materials: You can download course materials on the Online Video webpage.

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