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Discipline for Facebook posts didn’t violate free speech, says Minn. high court
A state university didn’t violate the First Amendment when it disciplined a student in a professional program for posting disrespectful and threatening comments on her Facebook page, the Minnesota Supreme Court has ruled.
Cyberbullying ordinances provide alternatives to state prosecution
Limited by the state’s options for legally pursuing cyberbullying, Wisconsin municipalities are turning toward local ordinances to deal with increased computer-based threats.
Is Facebook the future process server?
As West Michigan solo attorney Philip Ellison prepared for trial, he ran into a not-so-uncommon problem: he couldn’t find his key witness to serve him with a trial subpoena.
Employment attorneys grapple with new social media worries
Less than a month after the House of Representatives voted down the Federal Communications Commission Process Reform Act of 2012, the effects are starting to play out on Capitol Hill and in the courts.
Additional charges in fake Facebook stock sale
A woman accused of selling phony shares of Facebook stock is facing nearly two dozen additional charges.
Woman charged with selling fake Facebook stock
As Facebook announces plans for going public with a stock offering, an Oshkosh woman is charged with selling fake shares of the Internet social networking company.
How to grow a solo practice on a budget
You can post, link and tweet all you want, but growing a practice on a budget comes down to old-fashioned marketing, according to veteran solo practitioners.
Pokes, tweets and the law: Social networking raises key workplace questions
Everyone knew that social networking was too prevalent not to have some impact on the workplace and labor laws. The only question was when.
National Labor Relations Board: Facebook firings illegal
Employees who were fired over comments made on Facebook were illegally terminated, an Administrative Law Judge for the National Labor Relations Board has determined.
LEGAL CENTS: BranchOut: Keeping it (sort of) professional on Facebook
BranchOut -- the free, year-old professional networking app for Facebook -- just can’t decide what it wants to be when it grows up.
LEGAL CENTS: Put the spotlight on your firm with video clips
When Kate Scoptur and other firm leaders at Axley Brynelson LLP, Madison, initially floated the idea of incorporating video into their website, only a few attorneys volunteered to be the guinea pigs.
LEGAL CENTS: Making the case for a firm Facebook page
I’m addicted to Facebook. Considering how many lawyers and judges I’ve friended — who typically have already posted a new status for the day, every day — I don’t think I’m alone in my habit of going to Facebook first, then starting work.
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- The Latest: Supreme Court arguments conclude in Trump immunity case
- Net neutrality restored as FCC votes to regulate internet providers
- Wisconsin Attorney General asks Congress to expand reproductive health services
- Attorney General Kaul releases update at three-year anniversary of clergy and faith leader abuse initiative
- State Bar leaders remain deeply divided over special purpose trust
- Former Wisconsin college chancellor fired over porn career is fighting to keep his faculty post
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- A conservative quest to limit diversity programs gains momentum in states
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