Sunday, March 24, 2013

Oregon Bar Issues Ethics Opinion on Accessing Information on Social Networking Website

The Oregon Bar has published an ethics opinion addressing the following specific questions:

1. May Lawyer review a person’s publicly available information on a social networking website?

2. May Lawyer, or an agent on behalf of Lawyer, request access to a person’s non-public information?

3. May Lawyer, or an agent on behalf of Lawyer, use a computer username or other alias that does not identify Lawyer when requesting permission from the account holder to view non-public information?

The opinion is available here.  Go here for more information and links to opinions from other jurisdictions on the same or similar topics.