Presentation by Jonathan I. Ezor of the Touro Law Center for Innovation in Business, Law and Technology at the 2013 ASRC/NAD conference in New York City on October 1, 2013
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Legal Ethics and Social Media: Use in Litigation
1. Legal Ethics and Social
Media:
Use in Litigation
Jonathan I. Ezor
Assistant Professor & Director
Touro Law Center for Innovation
in Business, Law and Technology
jezor@tourolaw.edu
@profjonathan
2013 NAD Conference
October 1, 2013
2. Investigative Issues
• How are social media being used?
– Information about case?
– Information about opposing counsel? Judge?
– Information about parties? Witnesses?
Jurors?
• Front page article in Washington Post
(May 29, 2010) about increasing use of
subpoenas to obtain information from
social networks: http://ezor.org/jpsvx
16. Lying To A Tribunal
• Model Rule 3.3 prohibits attorneys from
making a false statement of fact to a tribunal
• New connections via social media provide
“channels” for discovery of such statements