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Estate Planning for the Digital Afterlife

Patrice P. Jean & Vanessa Ann Woods

As more Americans establish personal email accounts, social media accounts, and other electronic accounts, these “digital assets” are becoming an increasingly vital estate-planning consideration. The failure to consider how to dispose of digital assets in an individual's estate plan could result in later complexities following the individual's death.

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<b><i>Online Extra</b></i><br>Twitter Faces Surge of Securities Suits

Ben Hancock

The company was hit with the latest in a string of lawsuits alleging that the social media company misled investors about the growth of its user base, and that senior executives raked in hundreds of millions of dollars by selling their stock before the market learned about it.

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<b><i>Online Extra</b></i><br>Suit Says Facebook Ad Tool Discriminates Against Minorities Seeking Jobs, Housing

Ross Todd

Facebook has been hit with a lawsuit claiming that it violates federal anti-discrimination laws for housing and employment by allowing advertisers to exclude certain groups on the basis of race, gender or religion in social media ads.

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2016: The Year Everything Changed In Social Media Marketing

By Larry Bodine

Three megatrends culminated in online business development in 2016, requiring attorneys to change their digital marketing tactics and to re-focus on what produces results.

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Attorneys Accused of Filing Bogus Suits in Alleged Scheme to Stamp Out Negative Web Reviews Image

Attorneys Accused of Filing Bogus Suits in Alleged Scheme to Stamp Out Negative Web Reviews

By Ross Todd

Two California lawyers have been accused of participating in a scheme that used sham lawsuits to suppress negative online reviews of businesses.

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Photo Agency's Suit Against <i>Oh No They Didn't!</i> At Ninth Circuit

By Amanda Bronstad

A photo agency that sued the owner of online tabloid Oh No They Didn't! for copyright infringement is hoping to reverse a ruling that threw out its case, prompting Pinterest and others to weigh in and argue that reviving the case could erode legal protections afforded to Internet service providers.

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