In the late 1970s, when I first started practicing law, I remember the confusion and anxiety created by the newly born Discovery Rules. Since then, there have been dozens if not hundreds of books covering nearly every possible case scenario regarding the rules of evidence.
As I prepared to write this article, I remembered my very first social networking experience. It was 1984, and I had just purchased an Apple 2e that came with 64K of memory. I remember that neon green glow that emanated from the hardly discernable text on the screen and my first experience with the use of a modem. I sat around the computer with my children and sent a message into cyber space. Suddenly, a return text began to develop on the screen letter by letter, sentence by sentence. Edison, Marconi and Bell had no idea how the landscape of communication would change over the next century.
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