The torrent of social media evidence continues to grow. In November 2011 we searched online legal databases of state and federal court decisions across the United States to identify the …
The Federal Judicial Center (“FJC”) recently published a report surveying 952 federal district court judges to identify the scope of jurors’ improper use of social media during trial and how …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
As reflected by extensive recent discussion in the legal and eDiscovery community in recent months it is clear we all understand social media evidence is relevant to just about any …
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