Presented by the ISBA Intellectual Property Section
Live Webcast
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
11:00 a.m. – 12:05 p.m.
1.0 hour MCLE credit, including 1.0 hour approved Professional Responsibility MCLE credit in the following category: Professionalism, Civility, Legal Ethics, or Sexual Harassment Prevention credit
Learn how to better secure, memorialize, and archive evidence from the internet with this informative online program! Intellectual property lawyers, federal civil practice attorneys, family law practitioners, and any other attorney with intermediate practice experience tasked with finding online evidence who attends this seminar will better understand how to ensure that secured evidence is evidentiarily competent and how to avoid the pitfalls associated with ad hoc screenshotting by clients, attorneys, and staff. Additional topics include:
- Where is the evidence? The internet is a treasure trove of evidence for all sorts of cases. Personal injury? The injured party has a Facebook photo doing a cannonball. Trademark infringement? The infringing good is being sold on Amazon. But now you must go get it and make sure you can use it. And maybe avoid relying on a digital archive from the world wide web (also known as the Wayback Machine).
- Applicable rules and case law. You found the evidence … but can you use it? This portion of the presentation discusses the applicable rules of evidence and caselaw that may impact your client and your case.
- Best practices for gathering and using online evidence. You’re staring at the smoking gun … now what? Take a screenshot? Have a paralegal do it? Hope the Wayback Machine archives it? Use an investigator? Get the best practice tips you need for gathering and preserving online evidence so you can use it in dispositive motions and at trial.
Jonathan LA Phillips, Phillips & Bathke P.C., Peoria Heights
Program Speakers:
Alex Sappington, Page Vault Inc., Chicago
Jonathan M. Francis, Phillips & Bathke P.C., Chicago
Original source can be found here.