Of all of the amazing changes and conveniences that the Internet Age has brought us, one of the more powerful and pervasive is what has been called the “democratization of information.” Just as with the invention of the printing press and the spread of literacy, the Internet has put information and knowledge that used to be either hard to obtain or was the exclusive province of the highly educated in the hands of anyone with a computer, tablet, or even a smartphone.

Knowledge, information, and opinions about legal issues are not immune to this phenomenon. When you have a question about a particular legal matter or want learn more about a particular issue, I would be surprised if, at some point, you didn’t do a Google search to see what you could find out online. If...