Law Practice,
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Jan. 13, 2017
Bar unleashes attorney blogging opinion
Fresh on the heels of its prior opinion discussing confidentiality, the State Bar of California closed out 2016 with an ethics opinion analyzing the applicability of advertising rules to attorney blogging.
Stanley Mosk Courthouse
Wendy Chang
Judge
Los Angeles County Superior Court
Loyola Law School, 1995
Wendy is based in the firm's Los Angeles office. She is a member of the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility. She served as an advisor to the State Bar of California's Commission for the Revision of the Rules of Professional Conduct and is a past chair of the State Bar of California's Standing Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct. Wendy is a certified specialist in legal malpractice law by the State Bar of California's Board of Legal Specialization.
Fresh on the heels of its prior opinion discussing confidentiality (Formal Opinion 2016-195), the State Bar of California's Standing Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct closed out 2016 with an ethics opinion analyzing the applicability of advertising rules to attorney blogging, California Formal Opinion Number 2016-196.
The new opinion inquires under what circumstances is blogging by an attorney considered a "communication" under California Rules of Professional Cond...
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