Florida’s Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee opined back in 2009 that it was not permissible for a judge to approve a lawyer who may appear before the judge as a “friend” on a social networking site such as Facebook. Nearly three years later, another judge asked the committee a related question: What about LinkedIn?
The specific question before the committee — and its unequivocal answer in an opinion (via Legal Profession Blog) this week — was as follows:
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