[alexanderwept]

>Barring lawyers from referring to their legal backgrounds would violate their First Amendment rights

Only if it were the State who was barring them. If their credentialing body said - please don't reference your credentials in public, it wouldn't be any different than anyone else who's asked to keep things private.

Unless you're suggesting that there's a first amendment violation when your company asks you to keep mum about projects you're working on.