Oliver Wendell Holmes would love twitter. It is perhaps the greatest marketplace of ideas in the history of human kind.

You’ve got 140 characters to say something or nothing.

To read what someone writes on twitter you have to choose to follow someone.

If you say a lot of relevant or interesting somethings people will choose to follow you. You’ll be retweeted and before you know it all sorts of people will start following you.

If you’re a spammer no one will follow you.  Nobody. Part of Twitter’s success is that unfollowing someone is quick and painless.

I could spend all day everyday tweeting things like “Need real estate lawyers? Put Leone, Throwe, Teller & Nagle to work for you” the same way a television station could choose to run nothing but commercials all day.

The only rule the Statewide Grievance Committee needs to adopt regarding attorneys Twitter pages is to exempt them from registration entirely. The beauty of it is the marketplace of Twitter is more efficient than any rule that attorney ethics committees could create to regulate it.

In Tweetspeak: No need 4 SGC to regulate Twitter b/c using it to solely to market is self defeating.

Judge Greenway challenges readers to make recite the oath he or she took upon becoming an attorney.

Proving Judge Greenway’s point, I couldn’t remember a word of my oath. While I’ve given a lot of thought to legal ethics, the role of an attorney in society, and the general idea of justice – I haven’t thought about the oath I took since I took it.

Here’s the oath taken by Connecticut attorneys upon entering the profession:

You solemnly swear or solemnly and sincerely affirm, as the case may be, that you will do nothing dishonest, and will not knowingly allow anything dishonest to be done in court, and that you will inform the court of any dishonesty of which you have knowledge; that you will not knowingly maintain or assist in maintaining any cause of action that is false or unlawful; that you will not obstruct any cause of action for personal gain or malice; but that you will exercise the office of attorney, in any court in which you may practice, according to the best of your learning and judgment, faithfully, to both your client and the court; so help you God or upon penalty of perjury.  Conn. Gen. Stat. Sec. 1-25.

For Connecticut attorney’s, prior to stumbling upon this post, when was the last time you thought about or read your oath?