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While technology has improved the speed and efficiency for providing legal services, one aspect that may be overlooked is how the rapid growth of social media has affected the landscape of almost everything a lawyer may touch-for better or for worse. Legal Ethics and Social Media: A Practitioner's Handbook, Second Edition covers all areas of social media from both the attorney's perspective as well as that of the attorney's clients. Topics include: Being digitally competent Representing and advising clients in this digital age Judges, courts and legal ethics Google, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube Attorney advertising and social media Preservation and spoliation of digital evidence ""Facebooking"" a jury Ethically filtering a response to a negative online comment or review Digital assets and much more In addition, the book includes references to Legal Ethics Advisory Opinions and a Table of Cases. Any lawyer, judge, law student or legal professional who uses social media or has faced obstacles in court with client's social media activity will find this an invaluable-and essential-tool for their practice or firm.

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Jan L. Jacobowitz is a legal ethics, social media, and technology expert who is the founder and owner of Legal Ethics Advisor. For over a decade, she was the Director of the Professional Responsibility and Ethics Program (PREP) at the University of Miami's School of Law. Under Jan's direction, PREP was a 2012 recipient of the ABA's E Smythe Gambrell Award---the leading national award for a professionalism program. She continue to teach as a lecturer at Miami Law. Jan provides legal ethics consulting, opinion letters, and CLE training to law firms and legal organizations. She also serves as a legal ethics expert in litigation matters. Recently, she has been involved in matters involving issues such as attorney fees, conflicts of interest, the unauthorized practice of law, advertising, and the multi-jurisdictional practice of law. She is the immediate Past President of the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers (APRL) and the co-chair of its Future of Lawyering Committee (FOL). As a co-chair of FOL, Jan participates in the ongoing national conversation concerning rethinking attorney regulation to address issues of access to legal services, the unauthorized practice of law, and lawyers partnering with nonlawyers. Jan is the co-author of the book, Legal Ethics And Social Media, A Practitioner's Handbook, and is among the first law school faculty throughout the country to teach Social Media and the Law. She also co-developed the course Mindful Ethics: Professional Responsibility for Lawyers in the Digital Age, which served as the catalyst for the book that she co-authored, Mindfulness & Professional Responsibility--Incorporating Mindfulness into the Law School Curriculum. Jan served as one of five members of the Miami-Dade Commission on Ethics and the Public Trust from 2018-2020. She was the Vice Chairman of Broward County's Committee on Oversight of the Inspector General from 2011 until May 2018. Jan has presented at hundreds of Ethics CLE Seminars and has been a featured speaker on topics such as Social Media and Advertising, Technology, Lawyer's First Amendment Rights, Cultural Competence, Cybersecurity, Mindful Ethics, Litigation Funding, eDiscovery, Attorney Fees, Cannabis, and Artificial Intelligence. She has also authored law review and journal articles in many of these areas. Prior to devoting herself to legal education and legal ethics consulting, Jan practiced law for over twenty years. She began her career as a Legal Aid attorney in the District of Columbia; prosecuted Nazi war criminals at the Office of Special Investigations of the U.S. Department of Justice; and was in private practice with general practice and commercial litigation firms in Washington and Miami. Jan has a J.D. from George Washington University and a B.S. in Speech from Northwestern University. She is a certified civil court mediator and an active member of the California Bar, the D.C. Bar and the Florida Bar. John G. Browning has been a partner in the Texas offices of several large national law firms, in addition to managing his own law firm. He is licensed in Texas and Oklahoma and handles civil litigation in state and federal courts, in areas ranging from employment and intellectual property to commercial cases and defense of products liability, professional liability, media law, and general negligence matters. He also served as a Justice on Texas' Fifth Court of Appeals. Justice Browning has thirty-two years of trial and appellate experience. He received his Bachelor of Arts with general and departmental honors from Rutgers University in 1986, where he was a National Merit Scholar and member of Phi Beta Kappa. He received his Juris Doctor from the University of Texas School of Law in 1989. He is the author of two previous books on social media and the law: The Lawyer's Guide to Social Networking: Understanding Social Media's Impact on the Law (West 2010) and the Social Media and Litigation Practice Guide (West 2014). Justice Browning is also a contributing author to ten other books, the author of over forty-five published law review articles, as well as numerous articles for regional and national legal publications. His work has been cited in over 400 law review articles, in practice guides in eleven states, and by courts in New York, Texas, California, Maryland, Tennessee, Illinois, Washington D.C., Puerto Rico, and Florida. He has been quoted as a leading authority on social media and the law by such publications as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Law 360, Time, the National Law Journal, the ABA Journal, WIRED, and Inside Counsel. His work has been recognized with four Burton Awards for Distinguished Achievement in Legal Writing, the Texas Bar Foundation's Outstanding Law Review Article Award, the DRI's G. Duffield Smith Outstanding Publication Award, and the State Bar of Texas Presidents' Certificate of Merit, among other accolades. Justice Browning currently serves as Distinguished Jurist in Residence and Professor of Law at Faulkner University's Thomas Goode Jones School of Law. He also serves as Chair of the Institute for Law and Technology at The Center for American and International Law. He is a past Chair of the Computer and Technology Section of the State Bar of Texas. A former member of the Professional Ethics Committee of the State Bar of Texas, Justice Browning has received the highest honors for ethics and professionalism that a Texas lawyer can receive, the Lola Wright Foundation Award from the Texas Bar Foundation, the Jim Bowman Professionalism Award from the State Bar College, and the Luther ""Luke"" Soules Award from the State Bar of Texas Litigation Section. He is a frequent speaker on legal ethics at Continuing Legal Education seminars and legal symposia all over the country.

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