At Malbrough & Lirette in Houma, La., a secretary browses MySpace and Facebook Web sites each day.
She’s not checking the online social networking sites for personal reasons, but is performing one of her job duties.
Lawyers are increasingly finding that social networking sites hold treasure chests of information for their cases. Armed with printouts from Facebook and MySpace, attorneys have used pictures and comments from such sites as powerful evidence in court, where judges are apt to admit it like other electronic evidence. In one such instance, firm partner Joan Malbrough said she helped secure shared custody for a client after finding his wife had posted sexually explicit comments on her boyfriend's MySpace page.
October 15, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
At Malbrough & Lirette in Houma, La., a secretary browses MySpace and Facebook Web sites each day.
She’s not checking the online social networking sites for personal reasons, but is performing one of her job duties.
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