Riding the (once-trendy) coattails of the term “metrosexual,” there’s a new modern description for people — including lawyers — obsessed with all things digital: “datasexual.” “The datasexual looks a lot like you and me, but what’s different is their preoccupation…

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Technologist Andrew Chow, JD

Sometimes it’s difficult to serve a defendant. There are those that live alone, which means you can’t leave the summons at their perpetually empty home. The unemployed and couch-hopping are also impossible to track down. What are you supposed to…

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Technologist Stephanie Rabiner, Esq.

The Twitterverse can at times seem like a vast wasteland, especially when you’re looking for important law-related tweets. Hashtags can help. Adding hashtags to tweets can help facilitate conversations and increase your visibility, a recent article in MedCity News points…

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Technologist Andrew Chow, JD

FindLaw columnist Eric Sinrod recently asked whether the Department of Homeland Security is watching you. It is, if you’re inclined to believe DHS’ 2011 Privacy Compliance Review. That report included details about DHS’ “Social Networking/Media Capability.” Agents routinely monitor “publicly…

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FindLaw columnist Eric Sinrod writes regularly in this section on legal developments surrounding technology and the Internet. A few weeks ago this blog pointed out that the Department of Homeland Security’s command center regularly monitors social networking sites such as…

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Technologist Andrew Chow, JD

FindLaw columnist Eric Sinrod writes regularly in this section on legal developments surrounding technology and the Internet. Are George Orwell’s fears of a governmental “Big Brother” from his novel 1984 coming true now? Well, let’s hope not, but read on….

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Technologist Andrew Chow, JD

What would you do without Google? Or Facebook and Twitter? What if you couldn’t rely on secondary sources like Wikipedia or buy things on eBay or Amazon? If you’re predicting a personal Armageddon, you better think of a backup plan…

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Juror’s tweets are wreaking havoc, and this time they’re costing Arkansas a lot of time and money. The Arkansas Supreme Court has unanimously overturned the murder conviction of death row inmate Erickson Dimas-Martinez. Prosecutors can blame Juror 2, who tweeted…

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A growing trend called “reverse mentoring” is bridging a technological, and generational, divide at many companies. Law firms could also learn a thing or two by adopting the practice, experts say. Reverse mentoring is a fancy name for something many…

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Judges have long since banned cameras, video and sound recorders from the courtroom. But what about other electronic devices in courtrooms? Will there come a time when they are no longer welcome? We may be moving steadily, though slowly, in…

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Technologist Stephanie Rabiner