Bar examiners to look at Facebook
September 1, 2009 at 10:51 am | In General Interest | Leave a CommentTags: facebook, Legal Scholarship and Professional Development, professional conduct, professionalism
According to the Legal Blog Watch: “The Florida Bar Examiners are considering forcing some wannabe lawyers to be subjected to a thorough social networking investigation prior to their being knighted esquires. Florida bar examiners will look for evidence of substance abuse in applicants with a history of those problems, and will of course check to see if you would like to overthrow the government.” You can read more here.
Facebook friends and ethics
June 4, 2009 at 10:19 am | In Law in the News | Leave a CommentTags: facebook, legal ethics
From the Legal Blog Watch: A North Carolina judge decided to friend an attorney that was before him in a contested child custody matter. After appearing in court one day, the lawyer decided to post a comment on his Facebook account regarding the case. The judge responded.
The judge was reprimanded by NC’s Judicial Standards Commission. You can read more about this matter here.
Facebook = Lower GPA
April 16, 2009 at 9:28 am | In Tech Side of Things | Leave a CommentTags: facebook, GPA
From the Legal Blog Watch: According to a recent study done at the Ohio State University, “Facebook users in the study had GPAs between 3.0 and 3.5, while non-users had GPAs between 3.5 and 4.0. The study authors aren’t ready to say that using Facebook necessarily leads to less studying and hence, lower grades, just that there is a relationship between the two.”
Facebook privacy settings
February 19, 2009 at 12:20 pm | In General Interest, Legal Scholarship and Professional Development, Tech Side of Things | Leave a CommentTags: facebook
If you have a Facebook profile but want to keep everything as professional and private as possible, check out this link which tells you 10 privacy settings that you can use. Using these settings, you can prevent your profile from showing up in searches, tagging of unflattering photos, and more.
Thanks to ALA online.
Service through Facebook
January 6, 2009 at 12:48 pm | In Law in the News | Leave a CommentTags: Australia's Supreme Court, facebook
According to the Law Librarian Blog, Australia’s Supreme Court “allowed lawyers to serve defendants with a default judgement via Facebook, after being satisfied that the profiles the lawyers had found did in fact belong to the defendants in question.”
Selecting jurors using Facebook
August 12, 2008 at 9:04 am | In General Interest | Leave a CommentTags: facebook, jury selection
From the National Law Journal: “Jury consultants and trial lawyers typically compose jury questionnaires for jurors to answer during voir dire, if approved by judges. Some of the questionnaires are basic — employment, marital status, age, criminal record. But some are dozens of pages long and highly detailed.
Still, consultants and lawyers have found that jurors don’t always answer the questions honestly. So they have, in recent years, begun hiring private investigators and conducting their own research on jurors.
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