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case about two weeks, we found out about the legal defense fund that george had started, and we were also trying to deal with the way the media was sort of inundating us and the office so i contacted the ethics portion of the florida bar to say what do i do with the website, what do i do with the twitter account, what do i do with a legal defense fund. based upon that, they opened up a file and we had communications back and forth. they had no guidelines and i was sort of making up my guidelines along the way and as it turns out, sort of the model for how to handle these cases in the future, but that's really the grievance or nongrievance. it was just the bar's opportunity to give me some advice on how to handle twitter accounts, facebook accounts and the legal defense fund. >> back when george zimmerman was trying to -- this legal defense fund trying to raise money on his own behalf for his defense, i just have to ask, was this something, was this your suggestion to try to do this? did you advise him in any way to do this? >> when he got to me, he had