Social Media.

The ABA has just sanctioned the use of social media for attorneys in jury selection and to monitor jurors during the course of the proceedings. In those cases, where both time and physical resources would make it practical to mine potential jurors' websites or postings, the ABA's rule is both logical and necessary.

When picking a jury, you are faced with asking complete strangers questions with the intention of learning about them and determining whether they can be fair to your client. By and large, you are bound by their answers, never knowing whether they have been honest and straightforward with you, or to themselves. Their belief that they can be fair may be belied by their previous actions and certainly their comments.

Having the ability to simply check things that they may have posted, comments that they have made, or positions that they have taken...