"The Ethical Obligations of Lawyers, Law Students and Law Professors
Telling Stories on Web Logs" 
The Law Teacher: The International Journal of Legal
Education, Vol. 41, p. 287, 2007
Widener Law School Legal Studies Research Paper No. 09-22
ANNA P. HEMINGWAY, Widener University
School of Law
Email: aphemingway@widener.edu
This
article examines how blogging has developed and considers the ethics of
blogging and its impact on the legal profession. It examines blog entries from
lawyers, law professors and law students and suggests that the rules of the Bar
may be colliding with the manner of online storytelling occurring by legal
professionals. The article takes an in-depth look at how blogging has impacted
legal education and the relationship between faculty and students. It proposes
ways in which incorporating blogging assignments into law school courses can
assist students in developing ethical story-telling on web logs.
For a lawyer, blogging is like every other form of story telling to this extent:
I am limited by my obligations of client confidentiality in exactly the same way when I blog about my experiences as a lawyer as when I publish something in a newspaper or yap in a bar.
Posted by: Ken Gallant | October 09, 2009 at 11:40 AM