Podcast: A Test Lab for Social Media in the Courts
The Order in the Court 2.0 project will turn a Massachusetts courtroom into a test lab for how courts deal with social media, electronic journalism and digital technology. This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we discuss this pioneering project with John Davidow, the WBUR...

A Test Lab For Social Media In The Courts

Test Drive: Why Governments Use Social Media and Why They Should
I'm heading to the Law & Society conference in Chicago tomorrow morning. I've been working on the paper I'm presenting Sunday morning, which is currently titled "Petitioning in a Public Forum: The Case of Government Sponsored Social Media...

Courts Are Seeing More Use of Social Media By Judges and Courts
A study I reviewed today from the Conference of Court Public Information Officers (CCPIO) indicates that judges and courts are seeing more use of social media by jurors and others appearing in their courtrooms...

Negotiating Twitter: a mediator test drives the hot social media craze
Since February, I’ve been test-driving Twitter, the social media tool that everyone these days seems to be talking about.  It’s a social and business networking, instant messaging, and microblogging service, all rolled into one....

Social Media Legal issues and policies
On Wednesday November 10 I will discuss social media issues at a TechAlliance Breakfast Club event entitled Developing a Social Media Policy for your Business.  I’ll talk about: The legal traps of Social Media use...

Child Support
Disputing Paternity

Language Requirements for Citizenship
Naturalization without an English language test

Selection of State Supreme Court Judges
How State Court Judges are Selected

Department of Homeland Security, FBI, and Social Security Administration
allegedly denied social security insurance to disabled and elderly immigrants.

Social Security Loses Class Action, Will Pay $500 Million in Benefits
Social Security Loses Class Action, Will Pay $500 Million in Benefits

Water Samples
Govert Well & Pump agrees to $100,000 settlement after failing to test for coliform bacteria.

Canadian Government
allegedly used Canadian soldier as test subjects for nuclear explosion radiation exposure.

Social Security Class Action Launched
to Reinstate Wrongfully Terminated Payments

Marketing Spam
Member Source Media pays $200,000 civil penalty for deceptive online advertising.