The Lawyer's Guide to Social Networking Understanding Social Media's Impact on the Law

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Book Description
Written by a veteran litigator and leading expert on law and social media, The Lawyer's Guide to Social Networking provides a comprehensive look at how social media is affecting the legal system. This book examines the myriad ways in which information from sites like Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter is being put to use in everything from criminal and family law matters to personal injury, employment, and commercial cases nationwide. The author illustrates how the pervasive social networking phenomenon is redefining traditional notions of jurisdiction, duty, service of process, and legal ethics while using actual trial and appellate level cases to analyze the discoverability and admissibility of social media evidence.
Lawyers in virtually all practice areas will appreciate not only the author's practical advice, but also the insights into social media's value as a tool for marketing one's practice. This book also examines such cutting edge issues as the implications of social media's use for judges as well as jurors. By providing readers with a thorough look at how living life online can provide attorneys on both sides of the bar with a digital treasure trove of information, The Lawyer's Guide to Social Networking is an invaluable resource for practitioners everywhere.
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Contents
Foreword
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Social Media 101
Chapter 3: The Long Arm of the Cyber Law: Social Networking and Jurisdictional Issues
Chapter 4: Served through Facebook: Social Networking and Sendee of Process.
Chapter 5: The Facebook Divorce: Social Networking and Family Law
Chapter 6: Foiled by Facebook:
Use of Social Networking Evidence in Criminal Matters .
Chapter 7: Who Are You Going to Believe, Me or My Facebook Page?
Social Networking and Personal Injury Cases
Chapter 8: Social Media and Employment Law
Chapter 9: Libel by Twitter:
The Collision of Social Media and Defamation Law.
Chapter 10: You Are What You Post:
Discoverability and Evidentiary Issues and Social Networking
Chapter 11: Digging in the Digital Dirt:
Some Practical Pointers on Discovery
Chapter 12: Facebook, Eh?
Social Networking and Canadian Law.
Chapter 13: Intellectual Property Concerns in the Age of Social Networking
Chapter 14: Disclosure and the Twitter Nation: Social Media and Securities Law
Chapter 15: Ethical Issues and Social Networking
Chapter 16: Why Can't We Be Friends?
Judges and Social Networking
Chapter 17: Social Networking and Jury Selection
Chapter 18: Dangers of the Online Juror
Chapter 19: Social Media and the First Amendment. Chapter 20: Social Media and Attorney Marketing....
Chapter 21: What Does the Future Hold? Social Media and Evolving Crimes, Causes of Action, Defenses, and Legal Duties .
Appendices
Appendix A: Forms
Appendix B: Model Federal Jury Instructions
Appendix C: Instructions to Civil Jury
About the Author.
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Author Details
John G. Browning is a Dallas attorney with over twenty-one years of experience in trying a wide variety of civil litigation, ranging from personal injury and wrongful death cases to employment, commercial, consumer, and intellectual property matters. He is "AV" rated, a "Texas Super Lawyer," and a member of such prestigious organizations as the American Law Institute and Litigation Counsel of America. In addition to being a lawyer, Mr. Browning is a legal journalist whose work has appeared in newspapers and magazines throughout Texas and in regional and national legal publications and academic journals. His writing has earned numerous journalism honors, as well as the prestigious Burton Award for Distinguished Achievement in Legal Writing for 2009 and 2010.
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