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Threading the Needle: 10 Things Legal Needs to Know About Threads

For legal professionals, the rise of the new app Threads opens new avenues for engagement, networking, and information sharing, while also raising questions about privacy, data security, and the impact on legal professionals' online presence.
10 minute read

National Law Journal

FTC's New Social Media Influencer Guidelines Bring 'Big But Unsurprising' Changes

Among other things, the agency spelled out a new system for evaluating violations which keeps the targeted audience of such ads in mind.
4 minute read

Law.com

Attorney's Social Media Posts Cost Client $1.5M—And Lawyers Are Divided About It

As a constitutional attorney deemed the judge's ruling "a clear overreach," a professional responsibility expert validated the vacated verdict and newly granted trial as being within the judge's "inherent power."
8 minute read

New York Law Journal

CUNY Prof Who Filed Lawsuit Invoking 'Revenge Porn' Law Seeks $10 Million in Damages

Dr. Spring Cooper is requesting a jury trial to determine damages after a Judge Arlene Bluth granted her partial motion for summary judgement.
3 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Facebook Prevails in State Supreme Court Fight With New Jersey Over User Account Content

"And nowhere else in the nation has law enforcement sought prospective communications from Facebook users' accounts without presenting a wiretap order," Chief Justice Stuart Rabner wrote. "Based on the language and structure of the relevant statutes, we find that the state's request for information from users' accounts invokes heightened privacy protections."
5 minute read

Daily Report Online

Lawyer's Social Media Posts Lead Court to Wipe Out $1.5M Verdict

"Rafi's videos were not simply his informed expression about legal proceedings in general. They were comments with detailed specificity about this case and thus went well beyond just a 'matter of general public concern,'" read Judge Ronda S. Colvin's order granting a new trial.
6 minute read

Daily Business Review

Education Dept. Targets TikTok, Adult Performances at Schools

Using TikTok would be prohibited on district devices or over schools' internet and the app also could not be "used to communicate or promote any school district, school, school-sponsored club, extracurricular organization, or athletic team."
4 minute read

The Recorder

Cambridge Analytica Plaintiffs Lawyers Want $181M in Attorney Fees: 'Facebook Fought Tooth and Nail'

Co-lead class counsel Derek Loeser and Lesley Weaver defended their fee request: 'This was a hard-fought litigation over five years that yielded the largest privacy class action recovery to date and the most Facebook has ever paid to resolve a class action.'
5 minute read

Daily Business Review

Am Law 100 Firm Clients Allege Luxury Real Estate Investment Scam by Social Media Star

"Where you have a traditional fraud, almost like a Ponzi scheme recruiting additional victims, he gets to play an international character on social media and he plays a role," said David Haft, a partner at Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

Greenberg Traurig Partner Resigns After Backlash Following Ex-Wife's Viral Suicide Letter

"Shame on Greenberg Traurig, who knew all of this, and did nothing to stand up for the rights of domestic abuse survivors like me and my daughters," said Catherine Kassenoff, who wrote a letter accusing her ex-husband and former Greenberg Traurig shareholder Allan Kassenoff of abuse.
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