CLUELESS

David Giacalone at f/k/a sounds a Paul Revere alert about a recent bonehead decision by the Kentucky Attorney's Advertising Commission that demonstrates that the group is clueless about blogs.

Check out David's full post here.

Here's an excerpt:

Kentucky says every blawg post is an ad

Ben Cowgill is fighting for the life of his Legal Ethics Blog and for the future

of lawyer weblogs in the State of Kentucky.  As insane as it may sound to the rest of the legal community -- and especially to webloggers -- the Kentucky Attorney's Advertising Commission has taken the position that a weblog is an advertisement. That's particularly deadly to the existence of a weblog, because Rule 7.05 (b) of the KY lawyers' code requires a "A filing fee of $50.00 for each advertisement" and for every change in the advertisement. [A pretty good excuse for turning off the Comments section!] At the core of this problem is Rule 7.02 of the Kentucky Code which says:

7.02 "advertise or "advertisement" means to furnish any written,

printed or broadcast information or any other communication

containing an attorney's name or other identifying information,

except [for instances not relevant to weblogs].

Update: here are few more links to bloggers who are writing about this: Diane Levin's Online Guide to Mediation here.  On Firm Ground here. Evan Schaeffer's Legal Underground here.