Newsbits

• January 2012 (Topic 57): Spoliation Costs VA PI attorney $542,000 and his career

  1. Are the penalties for counseling a client to "clean up" potentially damaging evidence worth the price? In this case, Plaintiff's attorney had their client remove negative images on their Facebook account, even though the case went in their favor. The court fined both the attorney and the client.
  Look at: Lester v. Allied Concrete Company Virgina (citiation below)

  2. Do you give the same weight to personal social media as other digital evidence? Do you include a Litigation Hold on all party's personal social media? Law Enforcement uses social media to develop evidence against a suspect. Your licensed Private Investigators should be searching social media on all parties to help support your case or impeach the other side.
  Social Media review is part of our background investigations.