When she graduated from law school, Lauren Eagan never expected she would be stopped by strangers to tell her they appreciate her work. “Sometimes I’m out with my toddler and I’ll have a few people come up and recognize me,” ...

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More on Employment Law in Virginia By Katie Lipp and David Moon LinkedIn has quickly emerged as the premier social media outlet for professional network­ing in the United States. However, while the platform presents an exciting opportunity for com­panies to ...

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When you take a photo with your cell phone or write a blog post or a short story or a poem, in general you are creating a copyright that you own. Under United States copyright law you, as the owner ...

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Imagine walking into your office one morning and discovering that overnight some of your office equipment had been stolen, in­cluding a laptop. In this scenario, you had installed anti-theft soft­ware on the laptop. Immediate­ly upon realizing the laptop was missing, ...

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Facebook only arrived on the scene in 2004. It seems to many, especially the young, as though it has been here forever, but it has not. Our children simply don’t remember a non-digital life. So much has changed in the ...

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Launched in 2003, professional networking site LinkedIn was quickly overshadowed by Facebook when that startup went online just a year later. At the end of its first month, LinkedIn had only 4,500 members. But with a better economy, a lower ...

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There is no debate that social media has altered our lives both professionally and personally. Even if you don’t have a Facebook account or are not an avid Tweeter, chances are that a picture of you is on someone’s site ...

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Many lawyers bemoan the need to sit behind a desk staring at a computer numerous hours a day. They feel that their job, in particular marketing for that job, demands that they email, Facebook, tweet, etc. To those lawyers, I ...

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How did people find a lawyer before Al Gore invented the Internet? They asked a friend, saw an ad on TV, or looked one up in the phone book. Now, just 15 years after Google was formed, it has become ...

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Want to party 24/7? Social media perplexes many lawyers and law firms. They know they need to move in that direction, but the “how” escapes them. The way to succeed with social media is to embrace the simple but effective ...

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