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Who "Owns" Your Social Media Accounts? You or Your Employer?

There is a time bomb in your company that you had better defuse. This is true whether you are employee or employer, because when it blows, both sides will be out lots of time and money, including plenty in attorney's fees. Not that we attorneys don't...

Published Mon, May 21 2012 12:28 PM by Jim Thomas

Filed under: facebook, twitter, social media, LinkedIn

Can We All Agree that Requiring Facebook Passwords Is a Bad Idea, and Move On?

A lot of ink has been recently spilled in both the popular media and the blawgosphere over the apparent trend of employers requiring job applicants to turn over their Facebook passwords as part of the hiring process. The coverage has been so thick and...

Published Mon, Apr 9 2012 10:31 AM by Jon Hyman

Filed under: facebook, hiring practices

Service Of Process Through Facebook

Courts are increasingly willing to accept service through Facebook and other social media platforms when other methods fail. United States Mpafe v. Mpafe , Hennepin County, MN No. 27-FA-11-3453: Authorized service of divorce proceedings on defendant,...

Published Wed, Nov 9 2011 2:29 PM by Lisa McManus

Filed under: facebook, service of process, social media, Social Networking, discovery, litigation, Lisa McManus, Min Cho, Stacie S. Winkler

Social Media and Legal Ethics: Some Clarifications

The jury is (almost) in. We do not, thankfully, anticipate a Casey-Anthony-super-sized-post-verdict outrage when the American Bar Association codifies its Commission on Ethics 20/20 proposed amendments to the Model Rules in 2012. According to the Commission's...

Published Tue, Aug 9 2011 3:04 PM by Jayne Navarre

Filed under: facebook, Social Networking, social media policy, Legal Ethics

Appellate Court Says No Permission Needed to Tag Someone in a Photo

Yet another good find over at Internet Cases . I think it's going to officially be added to my RSS Reader. Excerpt below: Mother sought appellate review of the lower court's order that awarded primary physical custody of her daughter to the child's...

Published Wed, Mar 16 2011 11:29 PM by Keith Lee, Esq.

Filed under: facebook, photo tagging, tagging

'Friending' Adverse Witnesses: When Does It Cross The Line Into Unethical Conduct?

You represent the defendant in a personal injury case in which the 20-year-old plaintiff claims that she can no longer enjoy the pleasures of life and is confined to her home. During the course of examining plaintiff's witness in deposition, the witness...

Published Thu, Feb 17 2011 11:11 PM by Lisa McManus

Filed under: facebook, facebook friend, adverse witness

Facebook Now Accounts for 25% of All U.S. Pageviews

Hitwise recently reported that 1 in every 4 pageviews in the US is on Facebook , and also incredible is Facebook's claim that people spend over 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook. Astonishing growth made even more amazing by realizing that...

Published Thu, Dec 2 2010 1:19 PM by Lexis Hub Staff

Filed under: facebook, social media

Things You Shouldn't Share with Your Facebook Friends

This may seem obvious to many or us, but it is almost always better to be overly-cautious in the age of identity theft. The Huffington Post just published a list of the 13 Things You Shouldn't Tell Your Facebook Friends . Why not? You might ask? According...

Published Mon, Nov 1 2010 2:14 PM by Lexis Hub Staff

Filed under: facebook, social media

Restricting Facebook Use During Hiring: Germany Leads the Way

A proposed law in Germany will restrict employers from using Facebook, and other truly social Social Media sites, when recruiting. However the law would allow employers to search business Social Media sites such as LinkedIn. Since there are no current...

Published Wed, Sep 1 2010 9:59 AM by Peter S. Vogel

Filed under: facebook, social media in hiring

Haunted by Your Social Media Past

One Author Proposes Seemingly-Simple Solution Stacy Snyder is becoming a social media icon for all of the wrong reasons. You may have heard about her situation, as a 25-year-old student teacher, Snyder posted a now-famous (infamous) photo of herself sporting...

Published Tue, Jul 27 2010 6:59 PM by Lori Sieron

Filed under: facebook, social media, Social Networking, MySpace

Facebook - 500 Million, But What Happens When Friends Die?

Growth at Facebook has been unbelievable and not a surprise that its user rolls will get to 500 million , but last fall a childhood friend died, and a few months later I was taken aback after Facebook asked me to post on his wall. Since so many new Facebook...

Published Tue, Jul 20 2010 4:11 PM by Peter S. Vogel

Filed under: facebook, social media, Legal technology

Lady Gaga Beats President Obama to 10 Million Facebook Fans, Prince Goes Nowhere

At the same time Lady Gaga takes over the Social Media spotlight from the President, Prince announces that the Internet is nowhere and his next album will only be a CD. No surprise what Lady Gaga is doing since "Gaga's Facebook fans organized...

Published Tue, Jul 13 2010 12:43 PM by Peter S. Vogel

Filed under: facebook, social media, Legal technology

SHOULD LAW FIRMS BAN USE OF FACEBOOK AT WORK?

I predict that we will look back on this discussion in a few years, and find it hard to believe we were dealing with this. Whether it's Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Martindale-Hubbell Connected, or any of a number of other Social Media networking...

Published Wed, Jun 9 2010 1:36 PM by Nancy Myrland

Filed under: Social Media Law, facebook, social media in the workplace, social media, social media marketing strategy

Messages on Facebook & MySpace are Protected Information

A Judge ruled that Facebook wall postings and MySpace comments may not be subpoenaed based on the 1986 Stored Communications Act which is the same statute before the US Supreme Court in Quon v. Arch Wireless . US District Judge Margaret Morrow's May...

Published Fri, Jun 4 2010 10:56 AM by Peter S. Vogel

Filed under: Social Media Law, facebook, twitter

Facebook's Plans to Revolutionize the Internet

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerman recently announced significant changes to Facebook expanding 100's of websites with "open graph" and "like" which may revolutionize the Internet . At the annual f8 Facebook outside developers' conference...

Published Tue, Apr 27 2010 11:18 AM by Peter S. Vogel

Filed under: Social Media Law, facebook

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