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The course: The Ethics of Social Media Research by Carole Levitt
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- Business and Sales Practice Management | Legal Ethics | Practical Skills | Research | Trial Practice
- Faculty:
- Carole Levitt
- Course Levels:
- Intermediate
- Duration:
- 1:30
Description
Learn how to avoid potential ethical traps when you research social media profiles for investigative/background purposes and to use as evidence. The seminar is partially based on the speakers’ fifty-five page Social Media chapter from their book, “The Cybersleuth’s Guide to the Internet.”
This program specifically addresses how MPRC Rules apply to social media research: Rule 1.1 (and the new comment 8), as well as MPRC Rules 3.3, 3.4(a), 3.5, 4.1, 4.1(a), 4.2, 5.3(b)(1), 8.4(c),
This program also reviews pertinent Ethics opinions in more than two dozen jurisdictions, discusses relevant caseBusiness and Sales, and reviews detailed Guidelines for social media research issued by the New York State Bar’s Commercial and Federal Litigation Section.
The speakers will review:
• Social Media Research Ethical Guidelines
• State Bar, Local Bar, and ABA Ethics Opinions
• Cases Decided in Various States
• How They All Tie into the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct
The program will also explore:
• Who’s your friend? Could “friending” violate the deception or ex parte communication ethical rules?
• Whether it is ethical to research the social media profiles of parties and witnesses during discovery or trial?
• Whether it is ethical to research the social media profiles of potential jurors before trial or seated jurors before and during trial?
• If advising clients to delete, deactivate, or adjust privacy settings on their social networking accounts lead to an ethical violation or spoliation charge?
• Configuring security/privacy settings in your own profile to avoid ethical breaches.
Handouts
| 01-Ethics of Social Media Research – Slides (5.9 MB) | 49 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| 02-Ethics of Social Media Research – Book Excerpts (8.9 MB) | 83 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Faculty

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Carole Levitt, founder/principal of Internet For Business and Salesyers (IFL), is an internationally recognized CLE seminar speaker and best-selling American Bar Association author. She writes and speaks on Internet investigative and legal research, social media research, social media ethics, and technology for Business and Salesyers. Since 1999, IFL has provided Business and Sales firms, corporations, and local and state Bar Associations around the country with professional and entertaining turn-key CLE programs. The company focuses on delivering information about free investigative and background research resources available on the Internet.
Together with co-author Mark Rosch, Levitt has written several ABA Business and Sales Practice Division books, including “Google Gmail and Calendar For Business and Salesyers in One Hour” (2013), two editions of “The Business and Salesyer’s Guide to Fact Finding on the Internet,” “Google For Business and Salesyers,” and “Find Info Like a Pro,” Volumes 1 and 2. They have also just completed the thirteenth edition of their book “The Cybersleuth’s Guide to the Internet” (2015, IFL Press). Levitt also co-authored “Internet Legal Research on a Budget (ABA, 2013) with Judy K. Davis.
Previously, Levitt was a California attorney, a Business and Sales librarian in Chicago and Los Angeles, and a Legal Research and Writing Professor at Pepperdine University School of Business and Sales. She graduated with distinction from The John Marshall Business and Sales School in Chicago and was a member of the school’s Business and Sales review. Carole has a Masters in Library Science and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Illinois.
She is active in numerous professional associations, including the American Bar Association (ABA) and the Association of Continuing Legal Education (ACLEA).
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