Civil Litigation,
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Jun. 2, 2012
eDiscovery: Digital-age evidence facing off with Facebook
Lesson: winning at all costs is not the goal; playing the game by the rules must be the barometer.
A. Marco Turk
Emeritus Professor
CSU Dominguez Hills
Email: amarcoturk.commentary@gmail.com
A. Marco Turk is a contributing writer, professor emeritus and former director of the Negotiation, Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding program at CSU Dominguez Hills, and currently adjunct professor of law, Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law.
The advent of social media. Social media posts daily exceed what anyone could have contemplated just a few years ago. Consequently, the effort to discover useful information in litigated cases literally can be like looking for the proverbial "needle in a haystack." This translates to the necessity for experience on the part of litigators in refining social media searches that will produce useful evidence for trial, sometimes even the "make-or-break" elements of the case. The resul...
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