CLEonline.com, together with the Houston Bar Association, are pleased to present a special online CLE seminar on a topic that is becoming a topic of growing concern for more and more lawyers-- advertising on the Internet. In this seminar, you can hear from a member of the State Bar of Texas Advertising Review Committee and a public relations expert about ways you can harness the power of the Internet to market your practice and online advertising options that are both ethical and effective.
This seminar features an audio presentation from a live CLE seminar on this topic that was originally conducted by the Houston Bar Association (HBA) on February 5, 2010. This audio presentation features attorney Laura Gibson of the Houston firm of Ogden, Gibson, Broocks & Longoria, L.L.P. and MaryJane Mudd of the communications and public affairs firm of Full Tilt Communications in Houston. This is a streaming audio presentation that you can access on demand at any time during the course of the seminar session. The audio presentation runs for approximately 1.5 hours. This seminar is entitled:
HBA Presents: "Ethical Advertising on the Internet for Lawyers"
** (available at any time of the day and in time increments convenient to you during the above referenced dates) **
Subjects to be discussed during this CLEonline.com seminar include:
- Websites for Lawyers
- Use of Social Media by Attorneys
- E-mail Marketing & Newsletters
- Advertising Rules
- Filing an Advertisement
- Rule 7.04 Advertisements in the Public Media
- Advertising Rules and Social Media
- Rule 7.02 Communications Concerning a Lawyer's Services
The instructor/moderator for this CLEonline.com seminar will be:
Ms. Laura Gibson, who is a name partner with the firm of Ogden, Gibson, White, Broocks & Longoria, L.L.P.in Houston. Ms. Gibson is a former trial partner with Liddell, Sapp, Zivley, Hill & LaBoon (now known as Locke, Liddell & Sapp) in Houston, and she has also served as a certified trial instructor at the National Institute for Trial Advocacy. She has extensive trial and appellate experience handling complex commercial litigation and arbitrations in areas involving employment, energy, banking, securities, copyrights and communications law. She has handled arbitrations before the National Association of Securities Dealers and the American Arbitration Association. She is Board Certified in Labor and Employment Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. Ms. Gibson has served on the Advertising Review Committee for the State Bar of Texas since 2004. She served as Vice-Chair of the committee in 2006. In 2007, she was reappointed to the committee for a three year term and was named Chair of the committee where she continues to serve. She is a member of the Houston Bar Association (Employment Law section), the State Bar of Texas (Employment Law section), the Legal and Compliance Division of the Securities Industry Association;, the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas, Leadership Houston (Class XVIII), and a former director of the Southwest YMCA. Ms. Gibson has been recognized as a Super Lawyer by Law & Politics Magazine for 2004, 2007 and 2008. She received her law degree from the University of Houston Law Center (J.D., 1984) and her undergraduate degree from Texas A&M University (B.S., 1982). A more extensive biography for Ms. Gibson may be found at her firm's Web site.
The seminar registration fee for this CLEonline.com seminar is only $38. SPECIAL DISCOUNT: If you are a member of the HBA, you are entitled to a 20 percent discount and the registration fee is only $30. NOTE: If you are eligible and you wish to receive this special discounted fee, you will need to call the HBA Office in Houston (713-759-1133) and request the 'HBA Discount Code' for CLEonline.com seminars. When you register for this seminar on our site, enter this discount code on the Shopping Cart page to receive the discounted rate.
This seminar is accredited for 1.5 hours of participatory CLE credit (including 0.75 hour in the area of legal ethics) by the MCLE Committees of the State Bar of Texas and the State Bar of California. In addition, regular CLE credits for this seminar are also available in a number of other states. CLEonline.com is a State Bar of California approved MCLE provider pursuant to Sec. 9 of the California MCLE Rules and Regulations. (These are not self-study credits, but rather 'participatory' credits as you would receive for attending a traditional, live CLE seminar.)
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