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5 Things to Consider When Advertising Attorney Awards

Awards announcements seem to saturate attorney marketing. Although publicizing an award can be a great opportunity to advertise yourself and your firm, it should be done with care and purpose. Keep reading for five things to...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

The Ethics of Social Media “Friendship”

Social media information that reflects a person’s physical condition, activity level, and emotional state is a particularly valuable source of discovery in product liability and personal injury cases. See, e.g., Forman v....more

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Weekly Trends Report – 1/23/2019 Insights

Insight into where e-discovery, information governance cybersecurity, and digital transformation are heading – who is doing what now or in the future, what works and what doesn’t, and what people wish they could do but can’t...more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

Ethical Information Gathering When Using Social Media

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The American Bar Association Ethics 20/20 Commission and Rule 1.1 provide that a lawyer’s duty of competence “[t]o maintain the requisite knowledge and skill, [requires] a lawyer [to] keep abreast of changes in law and its...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Compliance into the Weeds-Episode 76, Facebook CISO and Ethical Behavior

In this episode, Matt Kelly and I being an exploration of the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica imbroglio. Today we consider the plight of soon-to-be former Facebook Chief Information Security Officer Alex Stamos who was seemingly...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Social Media

Social Links: LinkedIn’s new feature estimates compensation; states grapple with social-media-account-inheritance laws; insurance...

Because it bases its assesments on job title, location and industry, LinkedIn’s new Salary feature might be more accurate than are other online compensation estimation tools....more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Social Media

New Jersey Supreme Court Questions Ethics of “Friending” a Litigation Foe

Attorneys often research adverse parties online to obtain potentially useful—and publicly available—evidence for use in a case. But, as an ethical matter, may an attorney access information available only through an...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Compliance at the Tipping Point, Part V – Protection Afforded From a Compliance Program

Today, I wrap up my series on why I think compliance is at the Tipping Point. However as it is a Friday in October, I continue my tribute to the Man in the Shadows, producer Val Lewton, whose films for RKO had some of the...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Privacy, Security, Risk: What You Missed At IAPP Conference

Earlier this month, privacy and security professionals from around the globe gathered for “Privacy. Security. Risk. 2015”—the second joint conference between the International Association of Privacy Professionals and the...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

HorrorFest 2015 Celebration Part II – The Cat People, the Schrems Decision and FCPA Investigations

It’s the second Friday in October and I am continuing my HorrorFest month. I usually call it Monster Movie Fest but this year I am celebrating the films of Val Lewton who really worked more broadly in the horror genre, rather...more

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That is SO last week - September 2015 #3

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Last week, The New York Times reported that men “feel entitled to take time off for family” too. The subject of the article was Josh Levs, a former CNN reporter who wanted more time off when his third child was born...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Social Media

Status Updates - August 2014 #11

Breaking the ice. No one expected that people dumping buckets of ice water over their heads for charity would become the viral phenomenon that it has. One key technical secret to the success of the “ice bucket challenge” may...more

Adler Pollock & Sheehan P.C.

Lawyers and Social Media: Ethical Considerations, Problems and Pitfalls

Social media provides an extraordinary means not only to communicate and share information, but also to obtain information that may lead to incriminating, exculpatory and impeachment evidence for use in discovery and at...more

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Compliance Communicator: September 2013

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Memo to Managers - Social Networking in the Workplace - More than 75 percent of American workers use some form of social networking*, and that number is likely to increase. And it’s not just younger workers who...more

Pillsbury - Internet & Social Media Law Blog

To Friend, or Not to Friend: That is the (Judge's) Question

On May 28, 2013, the New York Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics issued an opinion stating "that the mere status of being a 'Facebook friend,' without more, is an insufficient basis to require recusal." (Emphasis in...more

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Florida Court: Lawyers And Judges Should Not Be Facebook Friends

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Can’t lawyers and judges just be “friends?” Apparently not, so ruled Florida’s Fourth District Court of Appeal last week in Domville v. State, No. 4D12-556 (Fla. 4th DCA 2012). The Fourth District’s decision is seemingly the...more

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