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Look Out for LinkedIn: Top Questions for Employers on How the Platform Impacts Your Workplace

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LinkedIn has become a key part of the business world for workers and employers alike. The platform can aid your recruitment efforts, company branding, and business development. But the world’s largest professional networking...more

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2020 Update: Can your social media (e.g., LinkedIn) contacts be your employer’s trade secret?

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Employers and employees alike use social media to promote and define their businesses and themselves in the digital space. From personal connections on Facebook, to professional marketing on LinkedIn, these connections on...more

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Court Allows Company to Surreptitiously Monitor Former Employee’s Social Media Account to Support its Trade Secrets Claim

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A federal court of appeals recently found that there was nothing wrong with a company monitoring a departed employee’s Facebook account and using that information to pursue a trade secrets claim against four former employees....more

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Third Circuit: Spying on Former Employee’s Social Media Account Does Not Constitute “Unclean Hands” to Bar Trade Secret...

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Consider this: a former employee has just left his or her employer and may have taken trade secrets to a competitor. ...more

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Third Circuit Rules In Favor Of Employer Who Monitored Former Employees’ Social Media Accounts

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On February 25, 2019, the Third Circuit held that a New Jersey engineering firm that monitored its former employees’ social media accounts was not barred from winning an injunction to prevent four former employees from...more

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A Company’s Facebook Snooping Didn’t Prevent Critical Trade Secrets Injunction

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Can a former employer’s alleged misconduct defeat a request for injunctive relief against former employees when those departing workers take confidential information and clients to another employer? A federal appeals court...more

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#SecretTweets: Protecting Social Media As A Trade Secret?

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Social media today connects people more than ever. It can be a means to bring together long-lost friends, new acquaintances, and love interests, or the public with celebrities, sports teams, new products, and companies—to...more

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Fight Over Virginia Tech Sportswriter's Twitter Account: Who Owns Employees' Social Media Accounts?

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Andy Bitter was a sportswriter for the Roanoke Times covering Virginia Tech football. He recently announced on Twitter that he was leaving the Roanoke Times and would become the VT beat writer for The Athletic, a...more

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Social Media in the Context of Post-Employment Litigation

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At the frontier of post-employment litigation is the issue of how to address social media contacts and communications. To date, while courts in other jurisdictions, such as California and Colorado, have passed on such...more

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Can your social media contacts be a trade secret of your employer? Maybe.

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This is a relatively new legal subject, so there isn’t much law out there.  In December, 2011, a Pennsylvania federal court answered this question in the negative.  In the case of Eagle v. Morgan, Linda Eagle, the founder of...more

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Ownership of Business-Related Social Media Accounts

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Social media platforms have become an increasingly important means for companies to build and manage their brands and to interact with their customers, in many cases eclipsing companies’ traditional “.com” websites. Social...more

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