Do not use the “Bar Association” label to indicate that you are licensed. In some states, membership in the Bar Association, a private organization, is not tied to membership in the state bar association itself. Under your profile preview, click Add sections. In the dialog box that appears, under Sections, click Certifications, and then click Add to Profile. This will take you to a page where you can enter information about your professional license or certification. The only place where avocado was allowed was Colorado. Nevertheless, according to the Pennsylvania Disciplinary Committee`s report and recommendation, he maintained an office in Keystone State and registered that address with the Colorado Supreme Court. A Colorado attorney must have figured this out the hard way: he was suspended in Pennsylvania for a year and received the same discipline in Colorado, where he got his license. (In fact, the suspensions were for one year and one day, a sentence loosely associated with the old English common law. Now you know.) Click “Add Certification” to add your professional license and return to your profile page. To add more licenses, scroll down to the “Certifications” section and click “Add Certification”. Enter the name of your license next to “Certification Name” and next to “Certification Authority,” the organization that issued the license. If necessary, enter your license number next to “License number”.

Select the date you received your license and expiration date next to Date. Click “This certificate does not expire” if your license does not expire. LinkedIn gives you a profile where you can post your education, previous work experience, and career recommendations. Although the section doesn`t appear by default, you can add a section that displays the certifications and business licenses you`ve purchased. This section displays the name of each professional license, the authority that issued it, the license number, if any, and the validity period of the license. Add descriptions of previous work experience – don`t just list employers and positions. Think about the keywords your potential clients or referral sources might use to search for lawyers like you and incorporate those terms into your profile. He also presented himself to the public as a licensee in Pennsylvania – including on his LinkedIn profile, which mentioned his “Pennsylvania law firm” and the Pennsylvania clients he allegedly represented. The profile also incorrectly stated that the lawyer had been admitted to practice in Pennsylvania since 2006 and also in California. You decided to complete a profile on LinkedIn because it`s a place where many business people search and interact with other business people. They believe that your LinkedIn profile will give you extra attention and help you expand your network. You want to build business relationships, whether it`s to get a job, build strategic relationships, attract media attention, get business opportunities or demonstrate your expertise to potential and existing clients.

Now, it might be time to update your photo. Use a nice and professional head photo. Make it a good one – a picture is worth a thousand words. Your profile may have been complete when you first posted it, but is it complete now? Is the photo up to date and recognizable? Too often, lawyers forget to update their LinkedIn profile when significant changes occur. If you`ve recently updated your company bio, started in a new line of business, published an article, received an award, accepted a committee, board of directors, or other leadership position, but haven`t updated your LinkedIn profile, now is the time to do so. Not only does an updated profile better reflect your knowledge and experience, but you`ll also be surprised by all the new features and sections LinkedIn has added to highlight your profile and showcase your skills. As a bonus, these updates often bring additional traffic to your profile. So you got your law degree and you even got the bar. What else? Approach your LinkedIn profile with these six tips: For those who want to indicate that they have passed the bar, but have not yet taken the oath or have met all the requirements to be admitted to practice, consider using “Bar Examination” or “Passing the Bar”.

The rules of advocacy and legal ethics apply to online activities as well as offline activities. Lawyers must respect the applicable ethical rules and ensure that they are respected. Ignorance is no excuse. Many lawyers violate legal ethics because they forget to apply them to their LinkedIn profile and presence. They use words in their LinkedIn profiles that they would not use in other marketing materials, do not provide the required warnings, do not properly manage their recommendations and recommendations, or do not contain the basic information required by ethical rules. For example, many New York lawyers with LinkedIn profiles did not remove the “Specialties” section at the bottom of their profiles, which was deemed a violation of professional conduct by the New York State Bar Association`s Professional Ethics Committee in August 2013.