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Electronic information is ubiquitous and its use and misuse can pose serious ethical problems for attorneys. Attorneys use electronic information to communicate with the public and with clients, to advertise their services,...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

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

Colorado Ethics Committee Issues New Guidance On The Use Of Social Media For Investigative Purposes

The Colorado Bar Association Ethics Committee recently clarified the ethical boundaries associated with attorney use of social media for litigation. Formal Opinion 127 (Opinion), issued in September 2015, addresses certain...more

Cozen O'Connor

Lawyer's Duty to Preserve Social Media Evidence

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Lawyers must take “appropriate” steps to preserve their clients’ potentially relevant and discoverable social media evidence. That is the key take-away from an ethics opinion recently issued by the Philadelphia Bar...more

McManis Faulkner

The Relationship Status of Social Media Evidence and Ethics

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Our social media posts reveal a lot about us and, while there are control mechanisms for keeping information private, there is a wealth of information readily discoverable. This makes the Internet fertile ground for lawyers...more

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