Presentation by Jonathan I. Ezor of the Touro Law Center for Innovation in Business, Law and Technology at the 2013 ASRC/NAD conference in New York City on October 1, 2013

1. Legal Ethics and Social
Media:
Use in Litigation
Jonathan I. Ezor
Assistant Professor & Director
Touro Law Center for Innovation
in Business, Law and Technology
jezor@tourolaw.edu
@profjonathan
2013 NAD Conference
October 1, 2013

2. Investigative Issues
• How are social media being used?
– Information about case?
– Information about opposing counsel? Judge?
– Information about parties? Witnesses?
Jurors?
• Front page article in Washington Post
(May 29, 2010) about increasing use of
subpoenas to obtain information from
social networks: http://ezor.org/jpsvx

3. http://ezor.org/czax6

5. http://ezor.org/am9oh

6. http://ezor.org/ry07c

9. http://ezor.org/fqbq1

11. http://ezor.org/r5k76

13. http://ezor.org/8k498

14. http://ezor.org/1eb3w

15. Evidence Collected in Violation of
Ethics Rules Probably Admissible,
But…

16. Lying To A Tribunal
• Model Rule 3.3 prohibits attorneys from
making a false statement of fact to a tribunal
• New connections via social media provide
“channels” for discovery of such statements

17. http://ezor.org/5d3h9