
The idea that I came across was to have the investigator – you, in the case of a solo lawyer, perhaps – video herself while simultaneous capturing the content of the screen.

As the saying goes: In God we trust, all others pay cash. But how do you show that the text or photo actually looked the way you say it did? Let’s put aside the professional obligations a lawyer has be honest. It’s also not an original idea, but I can’t find the site that inspired me in the first place.Īs I lay out in my materials, you can easily print a Web page with a text posting on it or download a photo.

This is going to get a bit goofy so apologies up front. How do you capture social media evidence in a way that is bullet proof AND sufficiently “do it yourself” and cheap that anyone can do it? This was a question I asked myself as I was preparing for a social media evidence session that I was asked to present for the Ontario Bar Association – the materials are here.
