Online or not: don’t misrepresent yourself

Yesterday I presented to Alameda County attorneys about the ethics of social networking and one of my basic points stated so frequently in  the codes that govern attorney advertising rules for the state of California is don’t provide false, misleading or deceptive information about yourself. 

This seems so obvious and then I hear stories like this one and I realize that it’s not.

Tags: attorney ethics, Linkedin, misrepresentation