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Admissibility Of Electronic Documents, Curtis E.A. Karnow
Admissibility Of Electronic Documents, Curtis E.A. Karnow
Curtis E.A. Karnow
A comprehensive inventory of issues involved in the introduction of electronic evidence, including practical alerts
Social Networking And Workers’ Compensation Law At The Crossroads, Gregory M. Duhl
Social Networking And Workers’ Compensation Law At The Crossroads, Gregory M. Duhl
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Over the past decade, social networking has increasingly influenced the practice of both civil and criminal law. One way to illustrate those influences is to examine a “system” of laws and the parties and lawyers in that system. In this article, we examine how social networking has influenced workers’ compensation law, looking at, in particular, the intersection of professional responsibility, discovery, privacy, and evidence with social networking in state workers’ compensation systems. Workers’ compensation laws are no-fault insurance systems designed to resolve disputes efficiently. Consequently, the rules of evidence are often more relaxed and the rules of discovery often more …