Wednesday, June 2, 2010

The story of the Louisiana internet/advertising rules and the federal court challenge

Posted by Alan Childress

One of my students doing a brief "independent study" on legal ethics wrote her paper on the 2009 Louisiana bar regulation of advertising, including internet and web advertising and blogging, and certain per-use fees and screening the bar requires.  The rules were modeled on the restrictive Florida rules.  The Louisiana act was challenged in federal district court late in '09 to a mixed result, as she details -- the judge nixing some procedures and fees while approving other parts of the act. 

It's an interesting story and she helpfully explains what this means in nearly 25 other states. The student is Brittany Buckley--now a proud Tulane grad--and she said I could share it on LPB. It is called Intersecting the First Amendment, Ethics, and the Internet:  Memo to Other States From the Louisiana Experience, and you can Download Buckley_ch 1 here.

This paper was turned into chapter one of the student book, called Hot Topics in the Legal Profession~2010, sold digitally on Amazon and Smashwords in nine formats including simple PDF (plus soon available for Nook and Apple--though iPad can read it now on its Kindle app).  You do not need to own a Kindle to read Kindle books, but anyway there is always pdf or rtf from Smashwords.  I blogged about the project here and included my Foreword as a download.  This chapter should give you another taste of what the overall book includes, such as friending judges and judicial elections; ancillary businesses of law firms under labor law, actual friendships of judges, settlement ethics, and the Caperton case and final result.  Get it while it  Iconis hot, and remember that sales benefit Tulane's nonprofit Public Interest Law Foundation.

The ethics book is featured on my publishing website at Quid Pro Books.  We seek submission of books or monographs on law, legal history, and law and society -- and of course legal ethics -- plus other academic subjects.  For information for you to submit your dissertation, here is my earlier post, but we also publish panel presentations, proceedings, and original manuscripts.  Information for prospective authors is here.

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