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Social media use is pervasive. People communicate online many times every day. Importantly, those online interactions create digital footprints that can prove to be invaluable — and sometimes detrimental to — litigation. Of course, the somewhat transient and unverifiable nature ...

I’ve written extensively in the past about the ethical obligations of lawyers who seek to obtain evidence using social media. The specific issues addressed in that context are irrelevant for the purposes of this column, but of note is that ...

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Technological advances over the past decade have occurred at an unprecedented rate. As a result, there have been drastic improvements in machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies in recent years, making many science fiction fantasies a newfound reality. A great ...

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For lawyers in 2018, cybersecurity issues are a top concern. For many lawyers, the prospect of securing their firms data is a daunting one; not surprisingly, the security measures that are actually implemented in law firms can vary greatly, with ...

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I recently received an email from someone who was a few years out of college and was considering attending law school. He asked me if I would go to law school again and indicated that he’d received “mixed signals” from ...

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I’m online a lot. For starters, it’s the nature of my job as a legal technology journalist and speaker, both of which are central to my position as Legal Technology Evangelist for MyCase. And that fact that I work remotely ...

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The phenomenon of social media has infiltrated all aspects of our lives, so it’s no surprise that social media evidence is now a pivotal tool in litigation. Juror use of social media has resulted in mistrials across the country for ...

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I’ve said it once, and I’ll say it again: technology is advancing at unprecedented rates. The impact of technology on our day-to-day lives is inescapable and the practice of law is not immune. Technology’s reach can be felt across the ...

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Over the past year, there’s been a lot of talk about artificial intelligence (AI) and its potential, both negative and positive. Some tout an idyllic world where robots cater to the every want and need of humans. Others, like Elon ...

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The iPhone was released in 2007, and it revolutionized the way that we communicate and access information. Once a novelty, smartphones are now commonplace in the legal profession. This is because lawyers jumped on the mobile bandwagon fairly quickly, unlike ...

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Last week I wrote about the recent ethics opinion out of Illinois, Opinion 18-01, wherein Illinois joined Alaska and New York in concluding that it is unethical for lawyers to use email tracking software. The Alaska committee specifically limited the ...

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As technology evolves, so too do the tools we use to enhance even the most basic technologies that we interact with on a day-to-day basis. For example: email. It’s been part of our lives for decades now, and while it ...

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