Blogs were a hot topic at the recent 2008 ABA TechShow. Companies are sprouting up everywhere to help lawyers and law firms start blogging. It’s conventional wisdom at this point to acknowledge that an effective blog can help a lawyer raise his or her profile, enhance his or her credibility and generate new business. But there is another side to the story brought to you courtesy of the law of unintended consequences.
News.com (hat tip: Web Worker Daily) posted an interesting story today about a recent libel suit filed against Cisco Systems over one of its employees personal blogs. Read it here.
The moral of the story: decide what your law firm’s blogging policy is and make sure all of your employees are aware of it.