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QUESTION-ANSWER ON CRITICAL THINKING EXERCISE
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Authors note

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Answers
1.
Social media have become an integral part of the legal procedure which creates issues
from the first meeting of attorneys with their customers to the verdict. It affects litigators in the
fields of criminal, civil and family law. Many authors are of the view that the risk and threat to
the lawyer and the consumer are common.
Some ethical minefields in the field of law are social media profiles, LinkedIn
recommendations, blogs, and responding to social media.
2.
Here the term ‘sanctionable’ means it ruins your case and destroys the opportunity for
justice for your client.
Facebook offers its users an option to ‘Download Your Info’. A zip file with information
about the timeline, blogs, notes, and images can be downloaded with just one click of the mouse.
The information which cannot be accessed by only logging into an account is also included, such
as advertisements that user has clicked on, IP addresses logged into when the user accesses their
Facebook account, along with other information that may be important.
3.
The proof in social media is compelling, valuable and accessible. For instance, the
prosecutors in Santa Barbara, California told data a woman displayed about the celebrating
lifestyle of her on Myspace has some dissimilarities between a judge imposed jail sentences

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rather than a trial in a drink hit and run case while drunk which killed her passenger. A lawyer
told us recently that his wife (also a lawyer) might find an unknown person and provide her with
details on their Facebook page.
4.
Two examples of employment cases involving Facebook are the Patriots Cheerleader and
the Wal-Mart Employee. These cases have some differences which usually happened in the US.
The National Labor Relations Board has issued a variety of recommendations for what is, and is
not, safeguarded as a staff is constantly in trouble for posting on social media websites. The
instances of more serious infringements of social media by workers add up to these situations, in
which identities were covered. For example, a teacher may never be wise to post commentaries
about their appearances on his students’ page.
5.
The top 13 social media issues are:
i) Not understanding copyright law; Failure to correctly disclose influencer marketing
operations;
ii) Presuming social media agency understands lawful;
iii) Not reading the terms of service;
iv) Not having an in-house social media rule;
v) Not planning for a legal alternative;
vi) Administering a social media sweepstakes without lawful authorization;
vii) Dragging content from Google Images;
viii) Making workers endorse your company on their private social media profiles;