By Hayes Hunt and Jonathan Cavalier While the EEOC’s position on the use of criminal background checks adds to the time and cost of implementing a screening policy, there remain many benefits to screening potential candidates, including: Screening required by…
Yearly Archives: 2012
The Benefits of Criminal Background Screening for Your Company
Tagged with: Criminal Background Checks, Criminal Convitions, Employer, Employer Duty, From the Sidebar, Hayes Hunt, Screening Employees
Posted in The Client
Posted in The Client
Criminal Background Screening – Employers & Corporate Counsel
By Hayes Hunt and Jonathan Cavalier So how can employers implement beneficial, effective criminal background screening in their hiring processes while ensuring that they remain in compliance with the law? A few simple steps will go a long way. 1.…
Tagged with: Criminal Background Checks, Criminal Convitions, Employer, Hayes Hunt
Posted in The Client
Posted in The Client
Steve Martin the Juror – New Federal Jury Instructions on Social Media
By Hayes Hunt and Brian Kint Actor Steve Martin, while on jury duty, tweeted the following to 380,000 fans: “REPORT FROM JURY DUTY: defendant looks like a murderer. GUILTY. Waiting for opening remarks.” A few hours later, Martin added, “REPORT…
Tagged with: Federal Jury Instructions, Hayes Hunt, Jurors, jury deliberation, Social Media Law, Steve Martin Juror
Posted in Trial
Posted in Trial
Is “Liking” a Political Candidate on Facebook Free Speech?
By Hayes Hunt and Jillian Thornton The amount of political rhetoric on Facebook is staggering. People are using Facebook to give you a “play-by-play” of what they think about the November presidential election. Facebook has recently filed a brief in…
Facebook “Friends”, 4th Amendment Privacy & Probable Cause
By: Hayes Hunt and Brian Kint A recent court decision has added support to the idea that there is no privacy on the internet. In United States v. Meregildo, defendant Melvin Colon moved to suppress evidence seized from his Facebook…
Tagged with: 4th Amendment, Facebook, Hayes Hunt, Probable Cause, Reasonable Expectation of Privacy, Search Warrant, Social Media Law
Posted in Social Media & Law
Posted in Social Media & Law
Video Interview: Discussing Twitter and Facebook Subpoenas, Guy Adams with LXBN TV
Following up on the From The Sidebar article co-authored by Jillian Thornton, Hayes Hunt had the opportunity to discuss Twitter and Facebook subpoenas with Colin O’Keefe of LXBN. In the interview, he speaks about when these sites may be forced to turn…
Tagged with: Facebook, From the Sidebar, Hayes Hunt, privacy, Social Media, Twitter
Posted in Social Media & Law
Posted in Social Media & Law
Criminal Convictions and Arrests – To Hire Or Not To Hire?
By Hayes Hunt and Jonathan Cavalier On the subject of criminal background checks, employers are often caught between the proverbial rock and a hard place. On the one hand, use of criminal background checks can, and has, led to discrimination…
Tagged with: Arrest, Background Checks, Corporate Counsel, Criminal Convitions, EEOC, Employer Duty, Hiring
Posted in Corporate Compliance
Posted in Corporate Compliance
Facebook And Twitter Subpoenas, Privacy And The Law
By Hayes Hunt and Jillian Thornton 955 million people are Facebook users and there are 500 million Twitter users worldwide. With these staggering numbers, social media is a goldmine or minefield for lawyers seeking information. What happens when a lawyer…
Tagged with: Discovery, privacy, Social Media Law, subpoena, Technology and Law
Posted in Social Media & Law
Posted in Social Media & Law
Predictive Coding – Clawing Back Privileged Documents
By Hayes Hunt and Jillian R. Thornton With regard to privilege review, lawyers utilizing predictive coding of ESI need to be especially vigilant not to inadvertently produce privileged documents. Although predictive coding can be used to assess privilege as well…
Tagged with: attorney work product, attorney-client privilege, Claw back, Discovery, inadvertent disclosure, Litigation, Litigation Practice, privileged documents
Posted in Litigation
Posted in Litigation
What Judges are Doing with Predictive Coding
By: Hayes Hunt and Jillian Thornton The difficulty with implementing processes such as predictive coding is that the technology is so new that these methods are fairly untested in court. However, the first wave of cases discussing the propriety of…
Tagged with: Discovery, Litigation, Litigation Practice, Predictive Coding, Technology and Law
Posted in Litigation
Posted in Litigation
