Long gone are the days where lawyers wrote as small as possible to record what was important on everything a juror said on a yellow post it notes. Now lawyers have literally a world of information at their fingertips in court. Competent, ethical lawyers need to know what is out there, how to access it, and what they can ethically use. 

Lawyers are no longer forced to rely solely on what jurors say in the courtroom. Internet research is used to explore and supplement what a juror is comfortable revealing in front of a room full of strangers. Social media sites function as lie detectors, exposing the often significance difference between the persona a juror reveals in the fishbowl of the courtroom, and the details they reveal to their hundreds of “friends” and online connections. 

This program will cover the ethical rules that govern how lawyers can access online information about jurors, where they can look, how they can cybersleuth, and how they can use the information they find.