Using Facebook and Other Social Media to Conduct Jury Research

Using Facebook and Other Social Media to Conduct Jury Research

Recently, attorneys have used information in Facebook, Myspace, and Twitter profiles, as well as other publicly available sources online, to conduct research on prospective jurors during the voir dire process. Get some background information on using Facebook to conduct juror research and links to resources to learn how to conduct this kind of social media research on jurors yourself.

Google Offers Proximity Search

Google Offers Proximity Search
Many paid legal research products such as LexisNexis and Westlaw offer the ability to search for keywords within a certain number of words from one another (a number that you define).Google does offer an analogous, but nearly unknown, proximity connector.