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You have a 5-star rating, hundreds or thousands of likes and followers, and you\u2019re getting the leads and engagement that other attorneys dream of\u2026only to lose it in seconds because of a disgruntled ex-employee […]","datePublished":"2025-02-27","dateModified":"2025-07-23","author":{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.consultwebs.com\/blog\/author\/cw-lphillips\/#Person","name":"Laura Phillips","url":"https:\/\/www.consultwebs.com\/blog\/author\/cw-lphillips\/","identifier":20,"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/4422125d4337c361ee87ba0c87b19c81?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/4422125d4337c361ee87ba0c87b19c81?s=96&d=mm&r=g","height":96,"width":96}},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Consultwebs","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/www.consultwebs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/CW-logo-color-dark.png","url":"https:\/\/www.consultwebs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/CW-logo-color-dark.png","width":258,"height":44}},"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/www.consultwebs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Facebook-and-LinkedIn-Post-Everything-You-Need-to-Know-About-SearchGPT.jpg","url":"https:\/\/www.consultwebs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Facebook-and-LinkedIn-Post-Everything-You-Need-to-Know-About-SearchGPT.jpg","height":630,"width":1200},"url":"https:\/\/www.consultwebs.com\/blog\/the-importance-of-social-media-account-ownership\/","about":["Social Media Marketing"],"wordCount":1298,"articleBody":"The Hidden Threat to Your Law Firm\u2019s Social Media PresencePicture this: You\u2019ve spent years building your law firm\u2019s online presence. You have a 5-star rating, hundreds or thousands of likes and followers, and you\u2019re getting the leads and engagement that other attorneys dream of\u2026only to lose it in seconds because of a disgruntled ex-employee or unscrupulous agency that has sole access to your firm\u2019s social media accounts.Years of hard work growing a positive social media presence could not only be gone, but ruined, in a matter of moments.Could your law firm handle a catastrophe like that?Talk about a nightmarish situation to be in\u2026unless you\u2019re secretly an eccentric scientist that has a DeLorean with a flux capacitor to send you back in time to fix the account ownership issue before it starts. If you\u2019re without a 1980s time traveling vehicle, then this likely isn\u2019t an option for you.Privacy Risks Your Law Firm Can\u2019t Afford to IgnorePotential clients message law firms online every single day, giving out personal, contact, and case information without a second thought, because they think that the communication is safe and guarded because they sent it in a DM.And why wouldn\u2019t they? They\u2019re chatting with their most trusted legal professional, their lifeline, so of course it\u2019s going to be safe…right? It\u2019s not like their lawyer would ever allow a risk like that. Or would they?Not-So-Fun Fact:82% of all data breaches involve human error, like misuse of credentials, according to the 2023 Verizon Data Breach Report. Cybersecurity threats, such as unauthorized use, are an ever-growing problem, and social media account ownership and access are no exception to this.Let me paint you a scary, but all too real, scenario: You fire the only employee with access or ownership of your social media profiles or business manager, and they\u2019re out for revenge. Or maybe you fired your social media vendor because you weren\u2019t happy with their work. All of a sudden, your firm\u2019s profile and cover photos contain explicit images.Your carefully constructed bio and contact information? Replaced with a link to an adult website and a 900-number that charges callers three dollars per minute. Your posts go from fun, informative, and helpful to lies and slander about how awful you are, how you treat all your clients horribly, and steal all their settlement money, or worse. Even though you know not a single word of that is true, you have no chance at disputing that if you don\u2019t have account ownership. Period. Word gets around quickly online, and you know the old saying – if it\u2019s online, it must be true.In this digital age where everyone is online and connected all the time, it would be so easy to take a screenshot of a wrongdoing, and we both know the lawsuits that you\u2019d be hit with would be astronomical. To quote the Tiger King, \u201cI\u2019m never going to financially recover from this.\u201dHow Many Strangers Still Have Access to Your Social Media?I\u2019m telling you this not to scare you, but to urge you to take action. The number of past employees and uncooperative digital marketing agencies I\u2019ve had to contact and convince to hand over the reins to our clients\u2019 social media accounts would probably boggle your mind. No joke.I can hear you asking yourself, \u201cBut what if my ex-employee or ex-vendor refuses to reply or hand over ownership of my social media? Have I lost all chances of ever gaining access?\u201dHonestly, there is no clear answer to that question. I\u2019ve had several uphill battles with past vendors, ex-employees, and Meta because of that very reason. It\u2019s like trying to nail Jell-O to a tree in the middle of a July heat wave in 97% humidity. The amount of documentation you need to not only prove you own your firm, but that you are who you say you are, and why ownership of the social media account should be yours, is astounding. I don\u2019t think you even need that much documentation to get a passport or even buy a house!Guess what? Social media platforms, prior vendors or marketing agencies,s or former employees don\u2019t always reply or say yes to the request of granting you ownership of your firm\u2019s page. In fact, it\u2019s more common for their support reps to drag their feet and deny the request to transfer ownership, and for a variety of reasons.To say it\u2019s frustrating and disheartening is an understatement, for both the client and for your marketing agency. We want nothing more than to be able to successfully resolve the issue and have your firm\u2019s social media accounts owned and controlled by the rightful owner – YOU.Take Control: How to Make Sure You Own Your Social Media AccountsSo what can you do right now that will set you on the right path to ensuring you own your firm\u2019s social media? I\u2019m glad you asked. Let\u2019s get down to brass tacks. For full ownership of your social media accounts, you\u2019ll want:A strong, hard-to-guess password – this one is pretty self-explanatory. Use a trusted password generator tool that uses a combination of uppercase, lowercase, numbers, and symbols to create a password.A password manager for login credentials – to increase security on shared logins and keep you from having to write down the password on a sticky note or create an easy-to-hack document with all the login credentials.Two-factor authentication (2FA) for every person who has any kind of role on your account, to prevent any unauthorized access.A regular recurring auditing of who has a role on the account and what permissions they have, to ensure that an ex-employee or former vendor no longer has access to your account.An offboarding process for rthe emoval of admins whenever vendors are changed.To have more than just yourself in an admin role (like a partner in the firm or a trusted family member) – just in case something happens to your personal account and it gets banned or deactivated, you\u2019ll still have a way to regain access.A Super Admin role on your company\u2019s LinkedIn business page.To create a business manager for your Meta accounts, this allows for greater security and more control for your Facebook and Instagram accounts.Consultwebs Can Help You Ensure Your Social Media Business Pages Are SecureI hear the question you\u2019re not asking, too. And the answer is no, you definitely should NOT hesitate to contact Consultwebs, even if you have little to no access to your firm\u2019s social media accounts.Our team offers everything from creating new social profiles for the firm to helping you regain access to accounts that only previous vendors or an ex-employee had. We can even walk you and your staff (on a Zoom call or screen share) through the process of granting you an owner and\/or admin role on the page.We want you to have ownership of your accounts just as much as you do. We\u2019ve seen such preventable account losses that didn\u2019t need to happen and share in the frustration you feel when a social media platform or ex-vendor\/employee isn\u2019t cooperative with your requests.Let\u2019s be real for a minute: your time is best spent practicing law and taking care of your clients, not worrying about your organic and paid social media, your website, SEO, or Google paid ads.Let us handle the details so you can experience the successes and growth that Consultwebs has to offer you! What are you waiting for?"},{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Blog","item":"https:\/\/www.consultwebs.com\/blog\/#breadcrumbitem"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The Importance of Social Media Account Ownership","item":"https:\/\/www.consultwebs.com\/blog\/the-importance-of-social-media-account-ownership\/#breadcrumbitem"}]}]