Since I have begun to make heavy use of Linkedin, I found the recent article by Tamara Thompson at Law Technology News, very interesting, see Due Diligence in Social Networks. Tamara suggests, and I agree that when it is necessary to do a background check, Judges often expect that some electronic background check is expected.
When I receive a new matter, I typically "Google," the parties to gain some insight into who I am dealing with. In one matter, in my initial client interview, my client described the opposing party as a professional gambler, a fact that, at the time, I did not consider relevant and almost ignored. Interestingly, immediately after the initial client interview, I Googled the opposing party and was able to identify them from published articles describing the winnings and losses of the opposing party and general gambling rankings. Who would have thunk it?
Tamara quotes from The Pew Internet & American Life Project reports that 66 percent of Internet users under the age of 30 have a social networking profile. CareerBuilder.com found that 37 percent of employees they surveyed did too.
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