Lawyer Serves Complaint Via Instagram
What’s a lawyer to do when she’s unable to track down a defendant to serve a complaint? She gets a judge’s approval to serve that complaint via Instagram, of course.
LinkedOut: Court finds Ex-Employee Likely Violated Non-Solicitation Provision with LinkedIn Post
The use of social media sites, like LinkedIn, can be a helpful tool to reach a customer base. But a recent district court case out of Minnesota exemplifies the need to ensure that LinkedIn usage complies with the user’s employment agreement.
Leveraging Social Media? Reach, Inform, Engage, and Encourage
In today’s “sound-bite” environment in which professional organizations compete for client attention through a variety of communications conduits, it is increasingly important to consider and evaluate the potentially powerful benefits of new social media tools. However, to properly leverage their benefits, one must also understand that these new tools are just that –– tools.
8 Things Learned Going from a Services Business to a SaaS Business
There’s a good chance that if you’re running a services business that it can be transformed into a SaaS business. If you don’t, someone may do it for you.
Court Compels Plaintiff to Provide Social Media Account and Activity Data
Kansas Magistrate Judge Kenneth G. Gale granted the defendant’s motion to compel the plaintiff to produce account information associated with his social media accounts as well as postings from the dates he missed work in conjunction with his injury claims against the defendant.
Legal Tech Companies Can Blame Themselves For Not Getting Media Coverage
If legal technology companies want media coverage of their products and companies, they need to learn what social media is and how to use it.
The NLRB Continues to Monitor Social Media Policies
“The NLRB’s efforts to protect social media communications by employees has been picking up steam for several years, dating back at least to 2012. Since that time, numerous NLRB actions, including the Chipotle case, have made it clear that polices containing broad restrictions on employee social media use or vague or undefined definitions of restricted behavior will likely be problematic.”
Court Orders Production of “Download Your Info” Report from Facebook
In this personal injury case, the court ordered Plaintiff to produce a “Download Your Info” report from Facebook, spanning from the date of the at-issue incident (June 2, 2014) through the present.
Off the Record? Workplace Perils of Video Recording and Social Media
With seemingly every employee having access to a smart-phone or other recording device, employers without strong social media policies may be placing themselves at greater risk of creating workplace incidents that could be avoided.
California Jurors May Face Fines for Social Media Use
The use of social media by jurors continues to disrupt trials, forcing courts, lawmakers and jurists to attempt to find new and more effective ways to curb this type of conduct.
ACEDS eDiscovery Conference 2016: Law Student Blogger/Social Media Seminar
The Law Student Blogger/Social Media Invitational pre-conference seminar brings together global blogging and social participants from the eDiscovery and Legal Technology community with law students forward thinking enough to create and share their knowledge via online media while still in school. While our hosts Ari Kaplan, Doug Austin, Rob Robinson and Robin Thompson are prolific and accomplished online professionals, we expect to learn just as much from our law student attendees as our hosts. Expect a lively discussion, with tips on tools, methodologies and sources to contribute to justice, build a brand, maximize networks and to attract followers and potential employers.
Counter-Marketing and Social Media: Connect, Contest, and Challenge
While not a new concept, counter-marketing with social media does provide companies a unique way to increase mindshare and money share while at the same time attempting to neutralize the impact of competitor social media marketing.
If Google and Oracle are Going to Mine for Jurors’ Social Media Info, They Have to Inform the Court
“Trial judges have such respect for juries – reverential respect would not be too strong to say – that it must pain them to contemplate that, in addition to the sacrifice jurors make for our country, they must suffer trial lawyers and jury consultants scouring over their Facebook and other profiles to dissect their politics, religion, relationships, preferences, friends, photographs, and other personal information.”
Survey Results: Truths About Lawyers and Social Media
A year ago, we thought social media couldn’t get any hotter as the marketing mode of choice for lawyers. Comparing results from the recent “Attorney at Work 2016 Social Media Marketing Survey” to last year’s shows we may have been right.
Decoding Digital Hieroglyphics: The Meaning of Emojis in Evidence
As professional speakers and writers, attorneys’ desire for precision and clarity urges us to find the single most accurate way to express a thought. And while clients may not have this compulsion, no expense has been spared when it comes to proving what the client meant when he or she said something. The need to ascribe definitive meaning has now reached the realm of emojis.
Email Isn’t Dead, But It Is Ageing: How Young People Now Communicate Online
Email isn’t dead yet, but that appears to be its ultimate destiny because young people have abandoned it, initially in favour of social media, and now messaging apps. Your business, organisation or agency needs to plan ahead for this change, particularly as older generations are likely to also progressively embrace messaging apps, just like they have become enthusiastic users of social media.
Digital Emotions: The Evidentiary Impact of Emoticons and Emojis
As emoticons, and especially emojis, explode in popularity and appear in more of our written communications, they inevitably raise legal questions. For instance, can an emoticon or emoji change the meaning of an email, text message, online chat, or blog post in which it appears?
Twitter, the Drone Selfie and Charting a Course for New Technology
A recently published patent application filed by Twitter provides a possible glimpse into the future of social media and selfies—and it’s a future arriving on the wings of that poster child of modern technology, the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), or drone.
How to Authenticate a Social Media Post
Despite its relationship to new technologies, electronic evidence, including social media evidence, is actually treated the same as traditional forms of evidence in terms of admissibility. You can’t get it in without proper authentication. Here’s how it’s done with social media posts.
Digital Marketers Only: 8 Reasons You Need WAVI Now
Your website is getting lots of hits, has a low bounce rate, and ranks high for all your top keywords. But this doesn’t mean it is delivering the leads you need to generate sales! Anonymous visitor identification is what you really need. A program that will tell you who is visiting your website and provide the qualified leads you need to help your business grow. Website Anonymous Visitor Identification (WAVI) from ComplexDiscovery can help you meet this challenge immediately.
Go Fish: Do General Discovery Rules Apply to a Litigant’s Facebook Posts?
While courts generally hold that normal discovery rules apply to social media discovery, at least one judge has identified—and railed against—emerging trends in such cases that impose additional hurdles for litigants seeking discovery of social media information.
How to Request Your Twitter Archive
How do you download your Twitter archive? That question has come up a lot recently. It is really fast and simple.
E-Discovery and Information Management: Can Clicking “Like” Make or Break a Lawsuit?
The severe sanctions imposed in these cases demonstrate the importance of understanding the implications of social media posts (and their removal) when a business faces, or reasonably anticipates, litigation.
Colorado Ethics Committee Issues New Guidance On The Use Of Social Media For Investigative Purposes
The Colorado Bar Association Ethics Committee recently clarified the ethical boundaries associated with attorney use of social media for litigation.
