Dean Rodney Smolla - Featured Author
In New York, lawyers soon won't be able to use jingles or monikers. In New Jersey, "Superlawyers" may soon have to be "Clark Kents" and shield their identities. How can limits be set and still not infringe on the lawyer's freedom of expression and the client's ability to make a judgment as to which lawyer to retain? And how can lawyers avoid the ethical pitfalls? With the web of lawyer advertising regulations growing more complex, we selected Dean Rodney Smolla as our featured West author for September 2006.
Mr. Smolla, who is Dean at the University of Richmond, is renowned for his scholarship on freedom of expression and is the recipient of both the William O. Douglas Prize for Most Distinguished Monograph in Freedom of Expression and the American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award Certificate of Merit.
Mr. Smolla's book Lawyer Advertising, Marketing and the Law guides the reader through the ethical and constitutional principles related to lawyer advertising and includes a state-by-state compendium of legal advertising regulation.
Featured Author's Title
Lawyer Advertising, Marketing and the Law