How to use social Media for Lawyer profession
What can you do when faced with a party who is exaggerating injuries and limitations in an attempt to bolster a damage claim? In recent years, we have witnessed the advent of new, highly effective tools that are allies in combating this occurrence—social media and freely available online content.
As recently as 10 years ago, a private investigator and claims index searches were a lawyer’s best weapon in attempting to uncover exaggerated injury, physical limitation, and damage claims. Only five years ago, a tech-savvy lawyer could scour the Internet and hope to get lucky online. Today, however, to the delight of trial lawyers like myself, there is a whole new world. It is a world in which baseless or exaggerated claims by parties can be exposed, in many cases fully, as the result of items posted on social-media sites and a variety of other free avenues for online research—Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Google, and Google Earth, to name just a few. Data and online content uncovered on such websites have led
As recently as 10 years ago, a private investigator and claims index searches were a lawyer’s best weapon in attempting to uncover exaggerated injury, physical limitation, and damage claims. Only five years ago, a tech-savvy lawyer could scour the Internet and hope to get lucky online. Today, however, to the delight of trial lawyers like myself, there is a whole new world. It is a world in which baseless or exaggerated claims by parties can be exposed, in many cases fully, as the result of items posted on social-media sites and a variety of other free avenues for online research—Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Google, and Google Earth, to name just a few. Data and online content uncovered on such websites have led
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