Watch your FaceBook and MySpace

If you or your clients are prone to letting it all hang out in various social networking sites [younger people gravitate to LiveJournal, MySpace and FaceBook, but there are plenty of places for adults and professionals to make connections] a word of caution: Everything you do and say can, and will, be held against you.

An interesting piece in Law.com's Legal Technology page by Vesna Jaksic explores how lawyers from either side of litigation can put their data-mining skills to good use.

Just as lawyers should always Google their clients for whatever the web will turn up on them, now we should expand those searches to social networking sites. And with the eDiscovery Rules in full bloom, knowing all the websites and email address of clients [and witnesses] is essential.