Thursday, January 29, 2009

Florida Lawyers Not Happy About Email Address As Public Records

Gathered in a gray Miami conference room, a handful of lawyers sitting in front of laptops fumed about being betrayed.

The Florida Bar had sold them out -- hawking their e-mail addresses to third parties who filled their inboxes with unsolicited marketing posts they consider spam. At the Bar's midyear meeting, they debated what could be done.

"The Bar has taken the position that these are public records," said Ury Fischer, a Lott & Friedland shareholder in Coral Gables who has written The Bar repeatedly about the issue. An intellectual property lawyer with a degree in engineering, Fischer wrote The Bar last month to complain about what in his view was an invitation for abuse by marketers.

Read more at Law.com

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