The first generation of associates who spent their college and law school years with access to TikTok are now joining the professional world, but no consistent policies have emerged among the largest law firms about employees’ use of the video sharing platform.

Priscilla Hamilton, an associate at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett who posts content to TikTok under the name “legallypriscilla,” was approached by a brand to do a paid post but said her firm, which she did not name in her videos, told her that doing so was a conflict of interest.

Policies governing social media activity vary from firm to firm, said Cecillia Xie, a former Morrison & Foerster lawyer turned writer and content creator who has more than 410,000 followers on TikTok. Eni Popoola left her job as an associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore in March to continue her beauty blogging career, including her “enigivensunday” account. Popoola clashed with the Wall Street law firm over paid partnerships, which violate its policy on moonlighting and outside work.

Meeghan Tirtasaputra, an associate at Fox Rothschild who offers advice to law students on TikTok, said some of her videos have influenced people to apply for Fox Rothschild’s fellowship program. She doesn’t name the firm in her videos, but the firm has reposted some of her videos to its own branded accounts.

The Supreme Court has handed twin victories to technology platforms by declining in two cases to hold them liable for content posted by their users. In a case involving Google, the court for now rejected efforts to limit the sweep of the law that frees the platforms from liability for user content, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. In a separate case involving Twitter, the court ruled unanimously that another law allowing suits for aiding terrorism did not apply to the ordinary activities of social media companies. A growing group of bipartisan lawmakers, academics and activists have grown skeptical of Section 230 and say that it has shielded giant tech companies from consequences for disinformation, discrimination and violent content across their platforms.

WPP-owned GroupM, one of the world’s top media agencies, has told clients it no longer considers Twitter “high risk”, after Elon Musk appointed advertising veteran Linda Yaccarino as the platform’s new chief. GroupM had flagged various issues following Musk’s purchase of Twitter, including large numbers of executives leaving or being fired and a wave of high-profile impersonations, which raised concerns about the company’s abilities to follow the Federal Trade Commission’s orders, various media reports showed.

Adults in Ireland are being urged to examine their social media use after a video of a vicious assault on a teenager was viewed five million times. Unesco chair on bullying and cyber-bullying, and director of Dublin City University’s anti-bullying centre, Professor James O’Higgins Norman, said: “The majority of people who shared the video were adults, and so we need to look at ourselves as adults and how we use social media and be a bit more conscious about what we share, and should we be sharing it . . . Are we becoming de-sensitised to situations that in the past would have horrified us?”

Recruiter Adam Karpiak reposts a popular meme and notes “interviews work both ways.”
Michel Fornaris comments in support of the sentiment illustrated in the meme: “I do interviews, I have done more than 60 in the last 10 years or so . . . and personally I don't care much what the resume contains, college title or previous position title much less what others can tell me about the candidate . . . It is my job to go as deep as needed to get a sense of the candidate personality and knowledge.”