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How law firms can attract technology gurus
Although some industries still have a glut of talent and limited job openings, technology experts tend to be the most popular people at the dance.
LEGAL CENTS: How and why you should use hashtags
Hashtags, or those strange little “pound signs” to some of you, are popping up across cyberspace.
What you need to know about e-discovery in 2013
Reflecting the always-changing world of technology, electronic discovery presents new challenges for lawyers in 2013. At the forefront: social media evidence, smartphone data and the judicial blessing of a new form of discovery review.
Improving your firm’s social media presence
Given the current explosion of social media use, it’s more important than ever for lawyers and their firms to be part of the conversation.
Courts weigh in on social media discovery requests
Lawyers still making their way along the learning curve of social media evidence may struggle to find guidance from court opinions.
NLRB opinion offers social media policy insight for employers
Social media websites are a relatively new phenomenon, and employer policies that establish what employees may post on those websites have been the (moving) target of labor disputes and litigation.
Critical online reviews can carry legal risks
A Minnesota doctor took offense when a patient's son posted critical remarks about him on some rate-your-doctor websites, including a comment by a nurse who purportedly called the physician "a real tool."
Headed to a conference? Get your game face on
In many ways, lawyers are like professional athletes: competitive, performance-driven and motivated by achievement.
The challenges of authenticating social media evidence
Evidence from social media could be essential to a case, but how do you get it in front of a jury?
NLRB says Costco social media rule violated federal labor law
Costco could not enforce a social media rule prohibiting employees from posting online statements that damaged the wholesaler’s reputation, the National Labor Relations Board has decided in rejecting an administrative judge’s findings.
ABA: Lawyer use of blogs, social sites continues to rise
The use of social media by lawyers – including blogs and social networking sites such as LinkedIn and Twitter – is continuing to increase, according to the annual technology survey conducted by the American Bar Association.
New model jury instructions target social media use
In an effort to deter jurors from using social media and smartphones to communicate about or conduct research on the case on which they serve, a Judicial Conference committee has updated federal model jury instructions.
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