Social media is not yet well understood by many lawyers. This presentation focuses on giving lawyers a basic understanding of the ethics rules which may apply to social media usage. Most commonly, these include:

1. Competence, particularly in the area of discovery involving social media
2. Keeping client data confidential
3. Advertising
4. Misconduct

After a brief view of social media usage by lawyers generally, topics covered in depth include:

1. Headlines from the news about lawyer and judge misconduct involving social media
2. Guidelines for avoiding these ethical missteps
3. What bars have thus far had to say about ethics and social media
4. What courts have had to say about ethics and social media
5. Ethics, e-discovery and social media – it’s a lot more complicated than it looks