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Ethics Complaint for Blogging Lawyer?

Attorney Ben Sheffner, on his blog Copyrights & Campaigns, describes an interesting situation where a criminal defense attorney has threatened to file state bar ethics charges against a California attorney and blogger (Patrick Fey of Patterico's Pontifications) who, in the course of his blogging, contacted a witness in the Louisiana attorney's case. It doesn't sound like there's much of a basis for an ethics charge (See Sheffner's post and the Legal Ethics Forum), but it's an interesting case.