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1. ATTORNEY PRESS STATEMENTS ABOUT CASES MAY NOT BE PROTECTED: Press and social media statements made on behalf of clients may not be protected by attorney immunity or judicial-proceedings privilege, leaving litigators open to defamation claims.

Author

Mattson, Amy

Subjects
*ATTORNEY-client privilege, *ATTORNEY & client, *LAWYERS, *ACTIONS & defenses (Law), *PRIVILEGES & immunities (Law), *TRIAL lawyers, *SOCIAL media
Abstract

In Landry's, Inc. et al. v. Animal Legal Defense Fund et al., a state supreme court unanimously ruled that neither the judicial-proceedings privilege nor attorney immunity shields lawyers from defamation claims arising from their pre-suit publicity efforts. Attorney Immunity Only Covers a Lawyer's Legal Services Turning next to the ALDF's assertion of attorney immunity, the Texas Supreme Court first distinguished it from the judicial-proceedings privilege. [Extracted from the article]

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2021

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