Lawyers are supposed to know they should not encourage clients to tamper with possible evidence in a matter likely to result in litigation. That applies as much to social media pages as it does to other materials.
Basically, parties are required to preserve relevant evidence if there is “reasonable” anticipation of litigation. Otherwise, sanctions are possible against the client or the attorney. In one case in Virginia allegedly involving a lawyer telling a client to clean up his Facebook pages, the attorney was ordered to pay a $542,000 sanction.
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