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Social Media and the Legal Profession

Clearinghouse IWG — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:56:46 +0000

The International Bar Association (IBA) has published a report, The Impact of Online Social Networking on the Legal Profession and Practice, the gives insight into the potential impact of online social networking on the legal profession and practice..

The objectives of the survey are:
• to consider the impact of online social networking on the legal profession and practice;
• to analyse whether there is a need for bar associations, societies and councils to come together to address this global issue and develop guidelines regarding the use of online social networking within the legal profession and practice; and
• to ascertain whether there is a need for the IBA to work with member bar associations, societies, councils and law schools to devise guidelines and toolkits regarding the use of online social networking within the legal profession and practice.

Survey questions were included that gauged how the bar felt about judges use of social media generally, during trial and juror use.

US Survey Results on Jurors & Social Media

CCCT-CCTJ — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:59:27 +0000

In a previous post, we have invited you to type “jury duty” in Twitter to produce interesting results.

On the present topic, an American survey was published by the Federal Judicial Center: Jurors’ Use of Social Media During Trials and Deliberations. A post by the United States Courts outlines a few interesting results.

Launch of Justipedia

CCCT-CCTJ — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:18:43 +0000

The Deputy Minister of Justice is pleased to announce that the Department’s new national legal knowledge management portal, Justipedia, will be available to all Justice employees on February 1st.

Justipedia is a comprehensive online portal for legal opinions, pleadings and facta, case law, statutes and other legal content. It will replace the Legal Opinions and Precedents Online Retrieval System (LOPORS), GASPARD, the Aboriginal Research Network and many of the Department’s other legal knowledge management systems.

White Paper on Primary Law Authentication (US)

Clearinghouse IWG — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:18:32 +0000

From the Legal Research Plus post

The white paper also frames the legal landscape and background of authentication for primary legal materials in electronic format, and provides context and points to applicable resources. The aim of this collective effort is to promote the understanding of costs related to authentication and invite further discussion on the issue.”

White paper is located here. The link for reference is: http://www.mnhs.org/preserve/records/legislativerecords/docs_pdfs/CA_Authentication_WhitePaper_Dec2011.pdf

Text-Based Communication from Court – UK Guidelines

CCCT-CCTJ — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:01:56 +0000

If you are interested in policies and guidelines available on the topic at hand, the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales has published guidelines on text-based communication from Court: Practice Guidance: The Use of Live Text-Based Forms of Communication (including Twitter) from Court for the Purposes of Fair and Accurate Reporting

Hat tip to The IT Law Community’s blog post.

Educaloi’s Experience With Social Media

Clearinghouse IWG — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:08:07 +0000

Éducaloi (Quebec organization involved in providing plain language legal information) writes about their experience with social media and how the different channels serve different clients. Their experience is useful to courts as they consider social media initiatives. The summary is also available in French.

LII Research

Clearinghouse IWG — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:48:07 +0000

Two articles from the VoxPopuLII blog give background information to the LII movement and look at research being conducted into sustainability.

Building Sustainable LIIs – or Free Access to Law as Seen Through the Eyes of a Newbiegive a summary with links to reports on Legal Information Institutes.

Reaching Sustainability of Free Access to Law Initiatives

The Chair in Legal Information of the University of Montreal is active in this research.