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Capturing Webpages as Evidence: Risks and Best Practices

Last Updated March 2024

This Page Vault-sponsored ABA webinar explores the different approaches and issues with the admissibility of online evidence in courts. The webinar focuses on:

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Modern Capture Practices for Admissible Evidence

Last Updated March 2024

Co-presented by Brett Burney and Patrick Schweihs, Esq., this presentation discusses both ineffectual and successful preservation practices. Presented with real-life stories from attorneys and survey data collected in the spring of 2017, this webinar gives a clear snapshot of the current state of web content collection.

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Overcome Facebook’s Dreaded Motion to Quash Civil Subpoenas

Last Updated March 2024

In today’s social media age, Facebook and other social media platforms are quickly becoming invaluable repositories of discoverable data for attorneys. Subpoenaing Facebook to retrieve this data in a civil case, however, is not an easy task, mainly because Facebook and other social media companies rely on the Stored Communications Act (SCA) to quash civil subpoenas for account data. Facebook is particularly explicit on this issue, stating on its website that it will not honor civil subpoena requests on SCA grounds.

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Social Media as Evidence

Last Updated March 2024

According to Nielson’s Q1 2019 Audience Report, the average internet user spends 2 hours and 23 minutes on social media every day. If you work in copyright, trademark and patent infringement, personal injury, employment, or family law, you’re likely already aware of the incredible volume of content that people freely share online. So what do you do if you need to preserve this content for a case?

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Your Intellectual Property Rights: Enforcment with Web Evidence

Last Updated February 2024

As shoppers are increasingly gravitating online to scout out brands, products and services on marketplaces and social media, competitors and cybercriminals are increasingly taking advantage of opportunities to illegally profit from or tarnish other brands’ reputations online. Sales of knock-off products can result in lost profits and damaged reputations, and even though many online marketplaces and websites have procedures in place to take down infringing content and pages, these often involve mediation or delisting procedures that lead to underwhelming or unhelpful results.

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Are Webpages and Social Media Admissible in a Court of Law?

Last Updated March 2024

With such an incredible amount of published webpages, websites and social media content, it can be a lot of work to sort out the content that is relevant in a legal case. However, once content is found, an attorney might ask whether or not it can be used as admissible evidence in court. The answer is likely yes, if it complies with the Federal Rules of Evidence, as well as web evidence collection best practices to strengthen its authenticity.

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