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Social Media Request for Production That Got It Right
May 18, 2014
Requesting social media relevant to a lawsuit should be done as standard operating procedure now. However, some attorney...
May 18, 2014
Requesting social media relevant to a lawsuit should be done as standard operating procedure now. However, some attorney...
Turning Negative Feedback Into a Positive
April 28, 2014
Feedback is everywhere. Not just in the form of professional performance reviews and unwanted comments from your parents, children and partners. Social media and review sites have unleashed the critic in us all. Eating a meal out? Post what you think of the food and waiters on a review site while still at the table. If you are reading this review online, you can leave a comment below saying just how wrong I am. We may not be able to exert complete control over what someone else thinks of us, but we can certainly...
April 28, 2014
Feedback is everywhere. Not just in the form of professional performance reviews and unwanted comments from your parents, children and partners. Social media and review sites have unleashed the critic in us all. Eating a meal out? Post what you think of the food and waiters on a review site while still at the table. If you are reading this review online, you can leave a comment below saying just how wrong I am. We may not be able to exert complete control over what someone else thinks of us, but we can certainly...
On Social Media, In-House Lawyers Like to Look
March 29, 2014
How are in-house counsel employing social media? By listening—according to Bev Cline, in a recent article in Lexpert....
March 29, 2014
How are in-house counsel employing social media? By listening—according to Bev Cline, in a recent article in Lexpert....
#WhyCounselNeedToFollowTwitter
February 22, 2014
Managing media relations is important—and not something that lawyers are always good at. Often you have to balance the legal risk of a statement against the business risk of not making one to the brand. You have to understand your client and their business—a $10 million fine may hurt much less than a three-month drop in sales or loss of certain clients. Effective compliance professionals understand the benefits and dangers of both social media and traditional media. Social media can serve as an outlet...
February 22, 2014
Managing media relations is important—and not something that lawyers are always good at. Often you have to balance the legal risk of a statement against the business risk of not making one to the brand. You have to understand your client and their business—a $10 million fine may hurt much less than a three-month drop in sales or loss of certain clients. Effective compliance professionals understand the benefits and dangers of both social media and traditional media. Social media can serve as an outlet...
Changes Ahead For Social Media In the Workplace
January 31, 2014
Social media has come a long way over the last few years. Services like Facebook and Twitter are no longer just ways to casually...
January 31, 2014
Social media has come a long way over the last few years. Services like Facebook and Twitter are no longer just ways to casually...
Could Law Firms Out-Publish Traditional Legal Publishers?
January 12, 2014
Jeff Bullas (@jeffbullas), a well respected social media strategist, believesthat one of the top social media trends for 2014 is brands out-publishing traditional publishers. Social media has given us the power, platforms and world reaching networks to all become publishers. Innovative and creative brands and businesses are realizing that social media and content publishing are synergistic cousins and cohorts. Create multimedia content and share it on social networks and you start global conversations. Brands...
January 12, 2014
Jeff Bullas (@jeffbullas), a well respected social media strategist, believesthat one of the top social media trends for 2014 is brands out-publishing traditional publishers. Social media has given us the power, platforms and world reaching networks to all become publishers. Innovative and creative brands and businesses are realizing that social media and content publishing are synergistic cousins and cohorts. Create multimedia content and share it on social networks and you start global conversations. Brands...
Facebook Increasingly Vulnerable to Discovery
January 12, 2014
From Bloomberg BNA: An important issue before the court system, born from the technological and intellectual advances of social media, is the proper application of privacy within the scope of a lawsuit and the confines of a courtroom. This subject was addressed in an order issued by Judge James P. Cullen of the Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Lancaster County, in Peronne v. Rose City HMA. 3 In particular, Cullen ruled upon the discoverability of a party's Facebook login information (i.e....
January 12, 2014
From Bloomberg BNA: An important issue before the court system, born from the technological and intellectual advances of social media, is the proper application of privacy within the scope of a lawsuit and the confines of a courtroom. This subject was addressed in an order issued by Judge James P. Cullen of the Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Lancaster County, in Peronne v. Rose City HMA. 3 In particular, Cullen ruled upon the discoverability of a party's Facebook login information (i.e....
The Role of the Internet in the Conduct of Litigation
October 15, 2013
Much has been written (in this column and elsewhere) regarding lawyers' adoption of social media and other Internet-enabled applications for such diverse purposes as discovery, advertising, client communication, research and the like. Indeed, due to the proliferation of portable devices, including laptops, smartphones and tablets, whether in their offices or not, lawyers now rely on ubiquitous and pervasive Internet access to perform a host of practice-related tasks. It has become such an integral...
October 15, 2013
Much has been written (in this column and elsewhere) regarding lawyers' adoption of social media and other Internet-enabled applications for such diverse purposes as discovery, advertising, client communication, research and the like. Indeed, due to the proliferation of portable devices, including laptops, smartphones and tablets, whether in their offices or not, lawyers now rely on ubiquitous and pervasive Internet access to perform a host of practice-related tasks. It has become such an integral...
Law Firm Associates’ Social Media Use Up, but Uneven
October 14, 2013
When Michael Visconti III, an associate in the intellectual property group at Boston’s Nutter McClennen & Fish, wants...
October 14, 2013
When Michael Visconti III, an associate in the intellectual property group at Boston’s Nutter McClennen & Fish, wants...
Lawyers’ Social Media Use Grows Modestly, ABA Annual Tech Survey Shows
August 10, 2013
Lawyers’ social media use continues to grow, but only modestly, according to just-released findings of the 2013 American...
August 10, 2013
Lawyers’ social media use continues to grow, but only modestly, according to just-released findings of the 2013 American...
