West Virginia (WV) Social Media CLE Course Catalog

Data has never been more intimidating: Slack attacks, Zoom booms, short format and continual messaging, and more apps that you can count. A tsunami of new and emerging data sources – ones that don’t work when handled as a traditional document – is crashing down on us. Learn how our panelists not just survive but thrive working with data like Slack, Teams, Zoom, WhatsApp, social media, and more.

These days, manufacturers of nearly every consumer product under the sun are catching false advertising claims. If you make a consumer-facing product, the odds are, litigation like this is not a matter of if but when, which means, false advertising litigation is just another business risk to be managed, mitigated, and optimized. This program takes a closer look at the landscape, and offers some practical advice and key considerations for how a business might implement some systems to manage this risk. Social media can be a powerful tool for companies to help build relationships with their customers and employees. However, with the benefits of this tool come corresponding risks. If your company distributes content on-line, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act can be your best friend -- and your worst enemy -- often at the same time. This program gives you the advice you need to prosecute or defend on-line copyright infringement claims.

In this session, we will discuss the most recent developments and explore whether the provisions set forth in the different bills offer the same level of protection.

No one could have anticipated that 2020 would be the year that the legal profession went fully virtual. In 2019, we talked as if this was 10 years away. Today, legal departments, law firms and courts all across the world have embraced and implemented these technologies and new working practices. This transformative shift for the legal profession has brought new opportunities and risks for General Counsel. The imposing privacy risks have been quick to appear, but should this impede the move to virtual? In this new digital age, what are the key privacy challenges and how can we tackle these so they do not impede the digital movement?

Join us for ALM’s open-to-all legendary Judicial Keynote Session as the panel discusses the cases that made (or missed) the ALM headlines in 2019-2020. Caselaw discussions will focus on the ever changing landscape of data and biometric privacy, privilege disputes, spoliation, recent news in iPhone forensics and social media discovery in litigation.

This emerging technology session will take participants through basic emoji meanings, hidden and otherwise, discuss newly-available technology helping target risky communications containing emojis and charged words, outline how lawyers can quickly investigate the substance of the issues at hand, and explain how courts have addressed emojis to date.