E-Discovery

Authenticating Social Media Evidence Is Harder Than Lawyers Think

Published on: April 14, 2018 By Daniel J. Siegel, Esquire in Appellate Decisions, CLE - Continuing Legal Education Program, E-Discovery, Evidence, Social Media, Trial

Let’s play a game. You’re the judge. Under the following facts, is the social media evidence admissible? After obtaining a Court Order allowing him to obtain a criminal defendant’s Facebook records, the prosecutor files a motion seeking permission to introduce into evidence the following items: Screenshots of the defendant’s Facebook…

Philadelphia Bar Association Ethics Committee Concludes That Social Media Evidence Must Be Preserved and Produced

Published on: July 14, 2014 By Daniel J. Siegel, Esquire in Discovery, E-Discovery, Ethics/Professional Responsiblity

A lawyer has a duty to preserve relevant, or potentially relevant evidence posted on social media websites, according to an ethical guidance opinion issued by the Philadelphia Bar Association Professional Guidance Committee on July 7, 2014. The Opinion emphasized that a lawyer’s duty to preserve evidence does not change simply…

Welcome Back – Pa. Supreme Court Issues “ESI” Rules

Published on: June 24, 2012 By Daniel J. Siegel, Esquire in Civil Procedure, E-Discovery

Welcome back to the Pennsylvania Law Blog, which has been dormant for about a year. It's not that nothing has happened, it's just not as easy to maintain a blog as we all had hoped. But our relaunch was designed to occur this summer, and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has…

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