Online interaction is now commonplace. Networking sites, including Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, are becoming mainstream. Opportunities for attorneys to connect and interact with potential clients are endless. Before jumping on the “social media” bandwagon, however, there are a few important ...

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Imagine you are the parent of a teenager, who most likely possesses a cellphone and access to the Internet. Combined with raging hormones, you have a recipe for “sexting” – the transmittal of nude or seminude photos through a cellphone. ...

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President Obama is doing it. Congressmen are doing it. Governors and mayors are doing it. And yes, lawyers are doing it. Or at least some lawyers are doing it. “It” is using Facebook to market oneself and one’s practice and, ...

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Facebook. MySpace. Twitter. Sure these sites are all the rage among the cyberset, but can businesses use these tools to their advantage? According to regular users of these networks, the answer is yes. At least that was the message to ...

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It’s either the most wonderful or most dreadful question we get asked these days: “Are you on Facebook?” Yes, even for lawyers, Facebook is very relevant. Most lawyers have come to know the ubiquitous social-networking Web site. Some attorneys are ...

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In the pre-Internet days, judges and lawyers worried about jurors obtaining information not formally presented in court, but the methods for jurors to do so seem quaint in comparison to what they can now do. In those days, an errant ...

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The face of our future is a teenager – thumbs flying across the tiny QWERTY keyboard of his cell phone, incessantly texting friends while at the same time carrying on a conversation with his grandparents. It’s called “social networking” – ...

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It was the “tweet” heard around the legal world. Two weeks ago, a juror in Fayetteville, Ark., used his cell phone to broadcast messages about the progress of the trial via Twitter, a micro-blogging Web site. “I just gave away ...

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