Loose lips sink settlements. In the age of social media, people are known for oversharing. But when it comes to bragging about a legal settlement that has a confidentiality clause, oversharing can cause more than awkwardness or embarrassment. It ...

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Grutzmacher v. Howard County (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-074-17, 29 pp.) (Wynn, J.) No. 15-2066, March 20, 2017; USDC at Baltimore, Md. (Garbis, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: Plaintiff, a county fire department battalion chief terminated for activity on his personal Facebook ...

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Liverman v. City of Petersburg (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-182-16, 26 pp.) (Wilkinson, J.) No. 15-2207, Dec. 15, 2016; USDC at Richmond, Va. (Spencer, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: Reversing a district court, the 4th Circuit says a city violated a police ...

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At this year’s LegalTech New York, a trade show presenting technology for attorneys, law firms and law departments, the legal risks of social media, cloud-based services and collaborative tools were key topics for both presenters and vendors. The first keynote ...

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The embattled South Carolina Department of Corrections appears to be playing a dark game of whack-a-mole as it tries to deal with allegations of prisoner rights violations that keep popping up.

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Seeking to mitigate the negative publicity swirling around his client ahead of a murder trial, defense attorney Charles Grose asked a judge to expand a gag order to include the victim’s mother, other members of her family and all their online supporters.

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ROCHESTER, NY — Social media has been around for more than a decade now, but it’s only been in recent years that lawyers have begun to fully realize what a treasure trove of useful information can be obtained from it ...

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A little over a year ago, I wrote about the plusses of Google+, but also observed that it didn’t seem like many lawyers had embraced the platform for marketing. Not long afterward, Google launched “Authorship,” and if you’ve previously been ...

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ROCHESTER, NY – It would seem that after many years of convincing, most lawyers are finally, at long last, fully aware of social media and are trying to use it to their benefit. Some are succeeding. Others — not so ...

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MICHAEL HAMMOND and MARK POWERS Want to party 24/7? Marketing experts Tim Tobin and Lisa Braziel suggest that social media is analogous to an ongoing, Internet-based, 24/7 cocktail party. Their book, “Social Media Marketing Is A Cocktail Party: Why You ...

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