The reputation executioner
When a lawyer’s name is mentioned in a disciplinary matter, it is often made newsworthy regardless of the seriousness of the breach. The internet algorithms become the final executioners and the lawyer’s reputation is shot to pieces. In Australia, the professional bodies and disciplinary boards do a decent job of building a barrier against the search engines but it is only a matter of time until their walls will be breached. Why publish names at all if they don’t come up easily in a regular Google search? Each State law society and statutory authority that is involved in publishing names […]