Attorney Must Remove Web Comments About Client

An attorney who failed to appear for arguments related to his allegedly defamatory online comments about a former client must take the comments down, the New York Supreme Court, New York County, ruled Oct. 2 (Glassman v. Feldman, N.Y. Sup. Ct., 102988, 10/2/12).

Justice Cynthia S. Kern granted the plaintiff’s request for an order requiring the attorney to remove the comments, noting the attorney’s failure to appear for arguments. However, the court declined to enjoin the attorney from posting statements about the plaintiff because there was no “evidence of a sustained campaign to interfere with plaintiff’s business ...