Social Media Ethics Webinar with Lewis Brisbois

On Thursday March 1, I will be speaking along with social media expert lawyer John Browning of Lewis Brisbois, and Josh Rosenberg of LexisNexis in a complimentary webinar addressing ethics …

Tompkins v. Detroit Metropolitan Airport; the Importance of Systematic Public Search of Social Media Evidence

In a recent decision, a Federal District Court in Michigan ruled that while social media is clearly discoverable, there must be some showing of relevance before the court moves to …

A Real World Social Media Discovery Case Study From the Trenches

As mentioned in my last post, many law firms and eDiscovery service providers have in recent months extensively discussed social media discovery in a general fashion. Such dialogue is important …

Top eDiscovery Trends for 2012: Tough to Find a List without Social Media

The buzz around the eDiscovery of social media continues unabated in 2012, and for good reason. I challenged the team here at X1 Discovery to identify a numerical “2012 top …

The Proper Method for Lawyers to “Follow” Jurors and Witnesses

Twitter continues to be a significant source of evidence in litigation and corporate investigation matters.  A legal database search of published opinions reveals several dozen known cases recently involving Twitter-based …

Pennsylvania Court’s Excellent “Whitepaper” on Social Media Discovery

Another Pennsylvania court recently ruled that information posted by a party on their personal Facebook page is discoverable and ordered the plaintiff to provide their user name and password to …

The Affirmative Legal Duty to Address Social Media Evidence (Guest Attorney Blogger Edition)

Today we are pleased to welcome a guest attorney blogger, John Browning who is a partner in the Dallas office of Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP.  John is a …

Legal Experts: Attorneys Have an Affirmative Duty to Address Social Media Evidence

First, many thanks to all who participated in our legal ethics and social media evidence collection webinar. Special thanks also to the esteemed Ralph Losey of Jackson Lewis for his …

Producing Facebook and Twitter Evidence in Native Format

Per all recent case law on the subject, including for instance EEOC v. Simply Storage, social media evidence is considered Electronically Stored Information (ESI) on the same par as email …

Can Lawyers Be Disqualified by Merely Viewing a Linkedin Profile? The Implications of Indirect Social Media Communications and Legal Ethics Rules

With attorneys and their hired consultants routinely collecting social media evidence for investigation and eDiscovery purposes, it is important to be aware that such activity can generate various direct and …

Facebook Spoliation Costs Lawyer $522,000; Ends His Legal Career

In what many are calling the largest eDiscovery sanction penalty ever leveled directly against an attorney, a Virginia state judge ordered lawyer Matthew Murray to pay $522,000 for instructing his …

674 Published Cases Involving Social Media Evidence

Many in the legal and eDiscovery field cite the very illuminating research from the Duke Law Journal published in the spring 2011, which, based upon their search of the case law, …

Discovery Procedures to Obtain Social Media Evidence – 3 Different Approaches

As the realization that social media is relevant to just about every form of litigation gains critical mass, the question turns to what is the most effective discovery process  to …

Limitations of Facebook “Download Your Information” Feature for eDiscovery Preservation

In October 2010, Facebook provided a “Download Your Information” (“DYI”) feature to provide a means for a user to download to their computer data they have posted to their own …

Social Media: Highly Relevant, Clearly Discoverable but No Workable eDiscovery Workflow – Until Now

As reflected by extensive recent discussion in the legal and eDiscovery community in recent months (see links to examples here, here, here, and here) it is clear we all understand …

Next Gen eDiscovery Law & Tech Blog made it to Alltop

Flash News: We’ve made it to Alltop!  Thank you to all our readers for helping make that happen. We invite you add our Alltop feed to your own MyAlltop page: Topic: http://ediscovery.alltop.com/ …

Key Facebook Metadata Fields Lawyers and eDiscovery Professionals Need to be Aware of

Thank you to all for the response and excellent feedback on our previous post outlining key Twitter metadata fields. As promised, here are some key metadata fields for each Facebook …