Legal Ethics Committee
Topic: Lawyers’ Use of Deal-of-the-Day Marketing Programs
Analysis of the Committee:
The Indiana State Bar Association’s Legal Ethics Committee has looked at the burgeoning group coupon forms of social media marketing. The Ethics Committee’s analysis is that such social media marketing is fraught with peril and is likely not permitted in its current form under the Indiana Rules of Professional Conduct.
Indiana Rules of Professional Conduct: 1.5; 1.15; 1.18; 1.7; 1.16; 2.1; 5.4; 7.2; 9.3
Referenced Ethics Opinions:
- North Carolina State Bar 2011 Formal Ethics Opinion 10
- South Carolina Ethics Advisory Opinion 11-05
- New York State Bar Association Opinion 897
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