McDonald Hopkins Law Firm Alert: Social Media - The New Frontier in Employment and Commercial Law

CLEVELAND, June 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Social Media Websites – like them or not – they are the new medium by which the world communicates. The statistics regarding usage are staggering:

• December 2009 – 248 million unique monthly users on the top eight social networking sites in the United States.
• Facebook – Currently 400 million users; 50% of active users log in daily; over 500 billion minutes per month spent on Facebook; average user has 135 friends.
• LinkedIn - Currently over 60 million users; half of the users are international.
• Twitter – Currently over 75 million users; 50 million "tweets" per day, up from 5,000 per day just three years ago.

As a result, employers are now faced with new challenges in regulating discrimination, harassment, and other employment based claims. Additionally, employers have a heightened risk of disclosure of confidential business information, as well as the potential for false advertising, and other related commercial actions.

The solution? Take a step back and remember to apply the same policies and procedures regarding anti-discrimination, anti-harassment, confidentiality, defamation, trademark, among others, to this new medium.

Click below to read the McDonald Hopkins Social Media Alert:

McDonald Hopkins Law Firm Alert; Social Media-The New Frontier In Employment and Commercial Law

http://www.mcdonaldhopkins.com/alerts/alert.aspx?id=W6haLdCFU02JgB3HtPvaQA

Click below to watch a video message about Social Media: James J. Boutrous, II, Co-Chair Labor and Employment

http://www.mcdonaldhopkins.com/alerts/video.aspx?id=aZ0ZyAKjCkqUS-8wtdSggg

Click below to view our recent webcast: Social Media is on a fast track! Is your company on the right track?

http://www.mcdonaldhopkins.com/webcasts/webcast.aspx?id=9h3rd3KtnEeVXhusMsNfLQ

About McDonald Hopkins

With more than 130 attorneys in Chicago, Cleveland, Columbus, Detroit, and West Palm Beach, McDonald Hopkins is a business advisory and advocacy law firm focused on business law, litigation, business restructuring, labor and employment, government affairs, healthcare, and estate planning. The president of McDonald Hopkins is Carl J. Grassi. For more information about McDonald Hopkins, visit http://www.mcdonaldhopkins.com.

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