Comments on Lawyers Weekly article the latest in Chicken Little | Real Lawyers Have Blogs http://kevin.lexblog.com/2008/01/articles/law-firm-marketing/lawyers-weekly-article-the-latest-in-chicken-little/ Law firms ought to be scared to death of the dangers presented by employees using social network sites and personal blogs. So says Kevin Lo, an e-discovery expert, in an article in LexisNexis' Lawyers Weekly. Lo raises a couple salient... en-us Copyright 2008 Wed, 23 Jan 2008 07:43:26 -0800 Wed, 23 Jan 2008 07:43:32 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss erwiest@wiestlaw.com (Edward Wiest) You should make clear that the "Lawyers Weekly" you linked to is a _Canadian_ publication, not the US family of publications including Lawyers Weekly USA and Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly. I doubt the US publications of this name would be publishing a piece with these conclusions.

]]> http://kevin.lexblog.com/2008/01/articles/law-firm-marketing/lawyers-weekly-article-the-latest-in-chicken-little/#911966 http://kevin.lexblog.com/2008/01/articles/law-firm-marketing/lawyers-weekly-article-the-latest-in-chicken-little/#911966 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:10:27 -0800 kevin@lexblog.com (Kevin) Thanks for mentioning that Edward. While practicing, I subscribed to Lawyers Weekly USA and found it to be an excellent publication.

Turns out this Lawyers Weekly publication out of Canada is a LexisNexis company. Fitting in that LexisNexis knows little about blogs nor social networking.

]]> http://kevin.lexblog.com/2008/01/articles/law-firm-marketing/lawyers-weekly-article-the-latest-in-chicken-little/#912269 http://kevin.lexblog.com/2008/01/articles/law-firm-marketing/lawyers-weekly-article-the-latest-in-chicken-little/#912269 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:38:07 -0800 jkash@skadden.com (Jonathan Kash) This is classic. While everyone at a firm should use discretion when posting content (Facebook profiles do have a lot of garbage), banning "2.0" is ridiculous. This reminds me of the NAR economist that was telling people the housing bubble will never burst.

"Hackers and spies?" Did Lo confuse social engineering with social networking?

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