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Perspective

Feb. 7, 2015

When a blog becomes something more

More and more lawyers are blogging - or blawging - these days. When does it cross over from expression to advertising? By Larry Doyle


By Larry Doyle


More and more lawyers are blogging - or blawging - these days. In theory, true blogs - i.e., websites on which an individual regularly records personal reflections, comments and opinions, and engages in dialogue with readers who comment upon those reflections, comments and opinions - would seem to be the embodiment of the kind of expression of opinion the Founders of our nation sought to protect with the First Amendment. As such, they would constit...

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