Examining the websites of Canada's Top Sex Crime Lawyers: The Ethical Parameters of Online Commercial Expression by the Criminal Defence Bar
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ARTICLES
EXAMINING THE WEBSITES OF CANADA'S TOP SEX
CRIME LAWYERS: THE ETHICAL PARAMETERS OF
ONLINE COMMERCIAL EXPRESSION BY THE
CRIMINAL DEFENCE BAR
ELAINE CRAIGI
I. EXAMINING THE WEBSITES OF CRIMINAL
DEFENCE LAWYERS
David Luban suggests that [l]awyers are the primary administrators of
the rule of law, the point of contact between citizens and their legal
system. For many citizens the portal for that point of contact will be
the Internet-the law firm websites that they find when first confronted
with the need to hire a lawyer.2 Particularly for those seeking criminal
Assistant Professor, Schulich School of Law. Thank you to my colleagues Jocelyn
Downie, Vaughan Black, Constance Backhouse, Steve Coughlan, Beth Symes, David
Tanovich, Janine Benedet, Alice Woolley, Richard Devlin, and Elizabeth Sheehy for
their support and comments on earlier drafts. Thank you to the anonymous peer
reviewers at UBC Law Review and thank you to Joanna Schoepp for research
assistance. The author gratefully acknowledges the support of an Insight Grant from
the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
1 David Luban, Legal Ethics and Human Dignity (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge
University Press, 2007) at 1.
2 See BTI Consulting Group, BTI's How Clients Hire: The Role of Legal Directories
and Online Lawyer Profiles (LexisNexis, 2011), online: <www.bticonsulting.com>
(finding that in-house corporate lawyers seeking outside counsel rely heavily on
lawyers' online profiles and social media sites). The rising importance of a law firm's
web-based presence is evidenced by the number of professional articles discussing law
firm websites and marketing. See e.g. Raymond T Lee, How Can You Make Your
Law Firm Website More Effective? (15 August 2003) 23:14 Lawyers Weekly 9;](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.journals/ubclr48&div=12&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)
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