Disclaimer (AKA When my Inner Law Geek meets my Inner Blog Geek)

[ciroccoj]

Herein lies a disclaimer to be attached to all postings of a defendant-client-court-related nature:

Solicitor-client privilege is a serious thing, yo. If you see any quotes, paraphrases, or any other kind of work-related tidbit on this journal, you are not seeing anything confidential. Most of it is from the (very public) courthouse, from defendants who have nothing to do with me. Any names used are fake, and I would only post something from one of our clients if it was extremely generic. Eg, everything from "I murdered my mom" to "I work at a Canadian Tire" is too specific to post, IMHO; "I like summer" is probably OK. "We got a first-time petty drug dealer thirty days suspended sentence today" is too specific; "we got a fair sentence last week" is probably OK.

Eg, a few months back I posted about three co-accused in court named Mohammed Mahmoud, Mehmet Ahmed, and Ahmad Muhamed. They weren't my clients, and those weren't their actual first and last names; I have no memory of what their real names were, only that there were three guys, six names, and all were close variations on Mohammed.

Just wanted to make that clear :)

Comments

[tudorlady.livejournal.com]

Same here. I strip out identifyable details of anything I've worked with (although it's getting further and further in the distance) - although now you guys may well be treated to financial trainwreck stories...

Also, I want to know WHO thinks this is a viable business idea? Organic (mostly vegan) soup delivered by bicycle. Yep, you can sign up to have someone bike over some soup every week, or whatever. What kind of customer base is that going to have??? When I asked generally, if this was going to be a going concern, I was told "well, it's delivered by bicycle". I thought for a minute I was in a Portlandia sketch.

[linaelyn.livejournal.com]

I carefully do this sort of thing for the identifiers on the girls in my scout troop or soccer teams, too. It's a matter of power to hold information about others, and power requires responsibility.