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Twitter hands over records in NY Occupy case
NEW YORK — Twitter on Friday agreed to hand over about three months’ worth of tweets to a judge overseeing the criminal trial of an Occupy Wall Street protester, a […]
Preserving social media information for e-discovery
As more and more individuals and businesses participate in social media, the amount of litigation-related information on sites like Facebook and Twitter is rising. For lawyers, these sites can be an electronic discovery gold mine — or they can be the downfall of a case.
Legal writing in 140 characters or less
Forget everything you learned in law school about legal writing, because the rules have changed in the era of the tweet, the text and the two-second attention span of most readers. Lawyers have been some of the slowest writers ...
Obama kicks off Twitter town hall with a tweet
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama kicked off his first Twitter town hall with — what else? — a tweet. Using a laptop set up on a podium in the East Room of the White House, Obama typed this message: "In order to reduce the deficit, what costs would you cut and what investments would you keep?"
Twitter buys application TweetDeck for $40 million
Twitter says it has bought TweetDeck, a London-based startup that helps people read, write and organize the short messages posted on the online network.
You can’t follow Justice Breyer on ‘the Tweeter’
Who says Supreme Court justices aren't savvy in the ways of social media. At a congressional hearing Thursday, Justice Stephen Breyer testified that he indeed uses Twitter, which the 72-year old refers to as "the Tweeter" or the "Tweeting thing."
Legal Currents: How will lawyers use social media in 2011?
Nicole Black expands on her prediction as to how lawyers’ use of social media will change in 2011.
SEC looking into trades of private shares
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Securities and Exchange Commission is looking into the booming trade in the privately held shares of popular social networking behemoths such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Zynga, according to reports in The New York Times and elsewhere.
When jurors tweet
With more than 500 million people on Facebook, it should come as no surprise that jurors are players in the world of social media. And it seems that each week, a story surfaces about a juror tweeting her plan to convict a defendant, or posting on Facebook that he plans to find for the plaintiff — before deliberations even begin.
Tweets may cause grief
Social media law may be the new kid on the block, but it’s growing up fast and it’s something attorneys should not ignore. That’s according to Philip Frankel, an attorney with Bond Schoeneck & King ...
The DOJ is now following you on Twitter
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Feds are on Facebook. And MySpace, LinkedIn and Twitter, too. U.S. law enforcement agents are following the rest of the Internet world into ...
Case Digests
- Fourth Department – Right to represent oneself: People v. Howard
- Fourth Department – Res judicata: Happy Lake House LLC v. Cross, et al.
- Second Circuit – Federal Debt Collection Procedures Act: United States v. Liounis
- Fourth Department – Sandoval ruling: People v. Grefer
- Fourth Department – Murder: People v. Gray
- Second Circuit – Wire fraud: U.S. v. Bankman-Fried
- Fourth Department – Possession of a controlled substance: People v. Clark
- Fourth Department – Visitation agreement: Diedrichs-Wheeler v. McAvoy
- Fourth Department – Labor Law: Delisle v. FBBT/US Properties, LLC
- Court of Appeals – Implied covenant of good faith: 111 West 57th Investment, et al. v. 111 W57 Mezz Investor, et al.
- Fourth Department – Negligence: Castle v. Swarfiguer
Law News
- NY Court of Appeals affirms attempted murder conviction
- Barclay Damon expands offices in Boston and New Haven
- Court of Appeals orders new trial in child porn case
- NY appeals court reverses burglary conviction over plea issue
- Side effect of NY auto insurance reform: costly lawsuits to prove damages
- NY appeals court reduces sentence for man who fired at deputies
- Telesca Center for Justice names new executive director
- Hochul calls for investigation of accusations against former judge
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