Issue Number 1, 2010

I am pleased to announce that on December 11, 2009, the Board of Directors declared a policyholder distribution for the 13^th consecutive year.  The amount to be distributed this year is $1,750,000 which when combined with prior years' distributions means that TLIE has returned a total of $24,050,000 to policyholders.

Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, MySpace:  these and other social networking tools on the Internet are being used by people in all walks of life-including lawyers.  This article will analyze the potential ethical issues that can occur in lawyer use of social networking.  Most of the issues are variations on old themes, but may not be obvious at first glance.

How to Keep Yourself and Your Firm Out of Trouble Online.

This issue of Texas Lawyers' Insurance Exchange Legal Malpractice Advisory will be the last printed version of this publication.  However, we will continue to produce the Advisory and it will be available by email and on our redesigned website at http://www.tlie.org.  The purpose and pertinent content of the Advisory will not change as we embrace the capabilities of the Internet.