From Feed to Evidence: A Lawyer's Guide to Authenticating Social Media Posts

Overview

Social media has generated an abundance of potential litigation evidence. This seminar introduces eDiscovery for social media data, explains the types of information contained in social media evidence and how to access data stored by apps or deleted by users, covers preservation and spoliation obligations, and concludes with the key factors essential to authenticating social media evidence along with recent relevant cases.

What you’ll learn

• ✓Apply eDiscovery methods to social media posts
• ✓Identify the types of information contained in social media evidence, including stored and deleted data
• ✓Meet preservation and spoliation obligations for social media evidence
• ✓Authenticate social media evidence using key factors and recent case law

Curriculum

1. 1. From Feed to Evidence: A Lawyer's Guide to Authenticating Social Media Posts

   In this seminar, our expert panelists begin by introducing eDiscovery and how it is used for social media data. Next, our speakers dive into the type of information that is included in social media evidence as well as accessing data that has been stored by an app or deleted by a user. The conversation continues with a discussion on the preservation and spoliation of social media evidence. Our panelists conclude with the key factors essential to the authentication of social media evidence and recent relevant cases. Topics covered in this webinar: eDiscovery for Social Media Posts Understanding Social Media Evidence Preserving Social Media Evidence Authenticating Evidence

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Your instructors

Daniel B. Garrie

Founder, Law & Forensics; Neutral at JAMS; Faculty at Harvard

Law & Forensics LLC · JAMS · Harvard · Rutgers Law School · Journal of Law & Cyber Warfare

Daniel B. Garrie is the founder and executive managing partner of Law & Forensics LLC, a boutique cybersecurity and forensic engineering firm he co-founded in 2008. He serves as a neutral, arbitrator, and forensic special master at JAMS, focusing on cybersecurity, cryptocurrency, and complex technology disputes, and holds faculty appointments at Harvard and Rutgers Law School. A patented software inventor and prolific author, he is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Law & Cyber Warfare and a widely cited authority on computer forensics, eDiscovery, and cyber litigation.

Jennifer Hoekstra

Partner, Aylstock Witkin Kreis & Overholtz PLLC

Aylstock, Witkin, Kreis & Overholtz PLLC

Jennifer Hoekstra is a Partner at Aylstock, Witkin, Kreis & Overholtz PLLC. She speaks on leveraging social media evidence in litigation, including the e-discovery, preservation, spoliation, and authentication obligations that apply to social media posts.

Mariana McConnell

Partner, Kiesel Law LLP

Kiesel Law LLP

Mariana McConnell is a Partner at Kiesel Law LLP. She addresses the discovery and evidentiary handling of social media evidence, including preservation, spoliation, and the key factors for authenticating social media posts in litigation.