George J. Badey III
George J. Badey III
Defense lawyers' best new evidence tool? It's right on their desktop.
Tonight at 7 on the Philadelphia CNN-News affiliate WFMZ-TV, The American Law Journal presents, "Social Media, Surveillance and the Injured Worker." Joining host Christopher Naughton are claimant's lawyers George J. Badey III of Badey, Sloan & DiGenova and Halmon L. Banks III of Martin Banks, respondent's counsel Anthony P. Salvino of White and Williams and Workers' Compensation Judge Joseph Hakun.
"Every new case that comes in [we] just Google the name, we'll look at Facebook ... and I have had cases where injured workers talk about going cross-country on a motorcycle," Salvino said. "I absolutely love Facebook."
"I tell my client it's the 'six o'clock news rule,'" Badey said. "If you say something on Facebook, it's the equivalent of, 'Would I be embarrassed or could this hurt me if it were broadcast on the six o'clock news?'"
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Next week on The American Law Journal: "How Drugs — Legal and Illegal — Affect Custody and Divorce." •
