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: Legal Ethics ForumLawyers: Advise Your Clients that "Private" Facebook, etc., Posts are Discoverable
There's a new New York case here. I don't see this as news, since putting "private" on my diary doesn't make it immune from discovery (if it's relevant, and, come to think of it, if I had a diary), but the issue gets litigated. Lesson: make sure your clients know that "private" doesn't mean "nondiscoverable."
Full post as published by Legal Ethics Forum on October 01, 2010 (boomark / email).
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