A Salt Lake City lawyer hopes to broadcast divorce court proceedings on his YouTube channel, but he has had little luck persuading judges to agree.
Lawyer Eric Johnson came up with the idea after Utah opened its courts to electronic media coverage last year, the Salt Lake Tribune reports. The state allowed TV cameras in courtrooms, as well as smartphones, tablets and laptops. Judges who objected to the electronic devices would have to justify banning them, according to previous coverage by the newspaper.
As an educational resource or marketing tool for your firm or other legal organization, a YouTube channel is very much what you make of it. Some legal channels are maximizing this medium and others have a way to go. In part 1, we looked at three legal sites — Stanford Law School, kCura, and Providence, R.I.-based firm Audette, Barzar, Cordeiro & Grasso, and offered three recommendations on how to create an appealing, cohesive legal channel.
Even if you can’t bring a large volume of videos...