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Common-interest communication in the age of social media presents a degree of risk and potential liability for community association directors and managers. This risk directly translates into an obligation for association counsel to guide clients in using social media effectively to avoid exposing the association to liability. While social media platforms provide more effective ways to engage owners in today’s multigenerational communities, community dissenters who are social media savvy are taking their causes online. This session identifies the legal challenges presented by social media in our communities and discusses how associations can manage communication expectations to lessen community frustration and to “get ahead of the game,” and how to defend against attacks by those actively campaigning against the association through social media while maintaining order and community harmony.
Special Note: This program is a recorded education session from the 2017 CAI Law Seminar.
Duration: 60 minutes
Program Description
Common-interest communication in the age of social media presents a degree of risk and potential liability for community association directors and managers. This risk directly translates into an obligation for association counsel to guide clients in using social media effectively to avoid exposing the association to liability. While social media platforms provide more effective ways to engage owners in today’s multigenerational communities, community dissenters who are social media savvy are taking their causes online. This session identifies the legal challenges presented by social media in our communities and discusses how associations can manage communication expectations to lessen community frustration and to “get ahead of the game,” and how to defend against attacks by those actively campaigning against the association through social media while maintaining order and community harmony.
Speakers:
James McCormick, Esq. is a managing partner in the Law Firm of Peters & Freedman, L.L.P. James attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where he received his undergraduate degree in Political Science. James then attended law school at the University of San Diego, where he was a teaching assistant for legal research, writing and oral advocacy and recognized as a Dean’s Outstanding Scholar. James has been formally trained as a mediator and mediated disputes for the former San Diego Mediation Center, now known as the National Conflict Resolution Center.
Matt D. Ober, Esq. is a Senior Partner of Richardson Harman Ober PC with over two decades of extensive experience in common interest development law, residential and commercial real estate litigation, construction contracts and defect claims recovery, and general corporate and business law. Mr. Ober presides over the Firm’s highly regarded community association law practice, providing full service representation to common interest developments throughout Southern California.
Continuing Education Credit
This program provides 1 credit toward:
- Certified Manager of Community Associations recertification
- Association Management Specialist redesignation
- Professional Community Association Manager redesignation
To earn credit, you must be personally registered for this program and print the certificate of completion to document your participation.
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Designations
Certified Manager of Community Associations
(CMCA®) /Association Management Specialist
(AMS®) /Professional Community Association Manager
(PCAM®) /Large-Scale Manager
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Accredited Association Management Company
(AAMC®)
Service Provider Designations and
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Reserve Specialist
(RS®)/Community Insurance and Risk Management
Specialist (CIRMS®)/Educated Business
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