Good Idea - Bad Idea: Choking A Prosecutor

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Good Idea:  Politely expressing your dislike for being mocked by opposing counsel.

Bad Idea:  Choking opposing counsel at the courthouse after they supposedly mock you.

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Good Idea - Bad Idea: Spying on co-workers

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Good idea:   Security systems at law firms.

Bad idea:     A partner placing a hidden camera under a female employee's desk, even if one of his listed hobbies on the firm website is photography.

According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, a partner at an Atlanta law firm has been charged with three counts of unlawful surveillance.  He is accused of placing a hidden camera under a female employee's desk, without her knowledge, at least three times. 

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Good Idea - Bad Idea: Communication

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Good Idea:  Communicating with your client.

Bad Idea:  Ignoring your client's repeated attempts to contact you, the court, and opposing counsel.  Not defending your client and failing to inform the client of a judgment against him is also frowned upon.

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Good Idea - Bad Idea: Social Networking

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By Seema KanwarKanwar, Seema

Good idea: Starting a successful social networking site.

Bad idea: Starting a social networking site that sends out deceptive and misleading invitations, resulting in a $750,000 penalty.

Tagged.com, a San Francisco-based social networking site was sued by the Attorneys General of New York and Texas for its deceptive and misleading invitations. The invitations stated that a friend had tagged a photo of the invitation recipient and that the recipient should sign up to see the photo.  After the recipient entered his/her email address, the site would send invitation emails to everyone in the recipient’s address book, a practice known as “contact scraping.”

As per
the terms of the settlement, Tagged.com will pay $500,000 in New York and $250,000 in Texas and institute reforms to its invitation process.

S
ee the New York settlement agreement here. 

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Good Idea - Bad Idea: Law License

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Good Idea: Using your law license to help your family with minor estate planning issues.

Bad Idea: Using your law license to allegedly rob your disabled 95-year-old grandmother of a cold half-mils' worth of inheritance.

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Good Idea - Bad Idea: Saving Tennessee Bats!

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By Eileen Burkhalter Smith

Good Idea:   Closing Tennessee Caves in the Middle of Summer  

Bad Idea:  Allowing White-Nosed Bat Syndrome to Get Out of Control   

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