Social Media

Weekly Tech Highlights

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Here are highlights from our Twitter posts for the past two weeks (Sept 7–21), with some additional commentary. Evernote is an amazing tool for gathering and organizing digital information. Lawyers could definitely use it as a tool for handling legal research. The trick to Evernote is getting familiar with it. If you’re interested check out this tutorial on iTunesU. Evernote is free for basic stuff, and only $45/year if you use the advanced features. If you have an iPhone or iPad, here’s a great podcast with recommended iOS apps for $5 or less. They’re not focused on the legal profession, Read More…

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Ethical implications for attorneys seeking social media evidence

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Social media sites have opened a new avenue on which users may post personal information. Facebook, at least in theory, allows users to limit who may see that information. The ethics rules impose limits on how attorneys may obtain information that is not publicly available, particularly from opposing parties who are represented by counsel. And that has implications for using social media sites to seek incriminating information. Below are ethics opinions from four different entities that provide a sense of how the ethical contours are developing for attorneys who seek social media evidence. San Diego County Bar Association Ethics Opinion Read More…

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Beginner’s guide to Twitter

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Understandably, there are many lawyers not yet willing to invest time messing around with Social Media tools like Twitter. When we do our CLE program on Social Media for Lawyers a core theme is that lawyers should pay attention to these things because their clients use them (often to get into trouble), and opponents try to discover them in litigation. If you don’t know anything about them it makes it harder to do your job, unless you work in an area of law that is completely insulated from social media. For those of you that are willing to try some Read More…

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Why Twitter matters

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During our recent two day seminar we spent some time trying to convince the lawyers in attendance of why Twitter is something worth trying. Here’s a great article from someone who craves useful information about sports, and has decided that Twitter is indispensable. If you don’t care about sports maybe you’ll find it hard to relate to his explanation of why Twitter is invaluable. So we’ll have to point you to someone who is using Twitter to follow something you care about. But for those of you that like sports, you’ll hopefully be persuaded to try Twitter for that reason. Read More…

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