Category Archives: Litigation & Social Media

This article is a good reminder that plaintiff attorneys specifically should expect their clients’ social media efforts to be made public even if they had restricted access to it with privacy restrictions. The issue isn’t privacy but relevance.  If the … Continue reading →

I just caught up with this case filed in the N.D. CA, titled Phonedog v. Kravitz where a popular reviewer garnered 17,000 followers, changed the handle on the account and took his followers elsewhere.  The plaintiff is suing for misappropriation … Continue reading →

Yesterday I posted about the Pennsylvania Supreme Court using Twitter to broadcast new rulings and the like.  Today comes this story about how the New York City Police have an entire unit dedicated to using social media to root out … Continue reading →

The court will use Twitter to give advance notice of most Supreme Court information, including orders, opinions, new rules, and concurring and dissenting statements written by justices. Is Twitter becoming a quasi public utility?

Add a Pennsylvania court to growing list of jurisdictions finding that plaintiffs in personal injury suits have no right to privacy in their non-public sections of their social media content. Before You Take on that New Client, Do Your Own … Continue reading →

I’d be interested to hear how litigators prepare their clients about they should handle their social media usage.  This is a good list of things of things to advise client to do prepared by a Connecticut Personal Injury Attorney and … Continue reading →