Omar Ha-Redeye taught a session at the Schulich Executive Education Centre on online reputation management.

Bob Tarantino of Heenan Blaikie picked up on a post on Slaw by Omar Ha-Redeye on internet defamation damages, citing an article by Matthew Nied, and commented on it on the firm’s Entertainment and Medial Law Signal:

Amit Agarwal of Digital Inspiration shares:

Around 70% of hiring managers in in US have rejected candidate just because of their online reputation.

See the full presentation here.

Shyama Menon of the Reputation Mangement for… blog picks on on a post on reputation management being the next big thing.

And for good reason – the site specializes in offering services for online reputation management.  There is obviously demand here in this growing field.

This talk was given to marketing professionals at the Schulich School of Business.

Presentation included questions and answers, as well as interactive exercises using the brands and companies of participants, but this content has been removed to respect the privacy of the companies involved and their representatives.

Legal cases discussed include:

• Hill v. Church of Scientology of Toronto, [1995] 2 S.C.R. 1130
• R. v. Cuttell, 2009 ONCJ 471
• York University v. Bell Canada Enterprises, 2009 CanLII 46447 (ON S.C.)
• Cohen v. Google, Inc., Index No. 100012/09 (N.Y. Cty. Aug. 17, 2009).
• Foda et al v. RateMDs, Inc., California Northern District Court

The October 2009 issue of JDSupra Law Practice Digest included an article by Omar Ha-Redeye on reputation management.

Sam Solomon of Canadian Medicine and Parkhurst Exchange posted an article today mentioning reputation management and a recent post by Omar Ha-Redeye suggesting that this is a service that physicians should seriously consider.

A little Search Engine Optimization doesn’t hurt. In fact, it should probably be a prerequisite for any counsel you do receive for this purpose.

A little experiment:

If this is the next “big thing” in law, doesn’t seem like a lot of lawyers have noticed yet.

See the posts on Slaw, LawIsCool and JDSupra for more.