There is a suggestion that the New York Administrative Board of Courts has proposed a new set of rules that may force those lawyers who blog to have their articles subject to the professional disciplinary rules on advertising. While it is certainly true that some legal blogs are no more or less than a varyingly competently marketing tool for many this is not true. Any punter looking to instruct Geeklawyer after having read this blog needs his head examining.
If such an oversight requirement is to have any utility or indeed effectiveness it needs to treat blogs as a sui generis medium. The idea of submitting blog updates in writing is truly bizarre.
Geeklawyer trembles at the thought that the Bar Council might take this as a precedent and if they do Geeklawyer hopes that they will consult those of us lawyers who do blog. But the Bar Council being its musty self won’t get around to it for another couple of decades yet.
By which time Geeklawyer fully expects to be either in charge of it or the Lord Chancellor. Either way his arse will be asbestos covered.
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