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This Week in eDiscovery: More Emoji-Related Cases, LLM Prompts vs. Search Terms, Data Deletion

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Every week, the Array team reviews the latest news and analysis about the evolving field of eDiscovery to bring you the topics and trends you need to know. This week’s blog covers the week of February 5-11. Here’s what’s...more

Barnea Jaffa Lande & Co.

Contracts, Signatures, and Smileys: Are Emojis Legally Valid?

A few weeks ago, a Canadian farmer sent a text message to a company he worked with that included a thumbs-up emoji, which symbolizes approval or agreement. To his surprise, the Canadian court treated this emoji as the...more

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[Webinar] Important eDiscovery Case Law Decisions for September 2023 - October 4th, 1:00 pm ET

Fall is in the air and so is the whiff of sanctions! Our September 2023 monthly webinar of cases covered by the eDiscovery Today blog discusses six disputes including sanctions for discovery violations & misrepresentations,...more

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Be Careful What You Click For: A Canadian Court Rules That A Thumbs-Up Emoji Indicates A Binding Contractual Agreement

In this age of social media and texting, we use a plethora of shorthand visual and typographic icons to express a range of responses or reactions to posts or texts: a heart to indicate love, a laughing face or an “LOL” to...more

Houston Harbaugh, P.C.

Text Message Emoji Was Sufficient to Agree to Contract

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Agreeing to a contract does not require everyone sitting around a table signing documents; sending a “thumbs up” text message emoji was sufficient to agree to a contract according to a recent Canadian court decision....more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

Workplace emoji DON'Ts

You DO want to be "with it," don't you? The Daily Mail came out this week with a list of workplace emoji that Generation Z says are either offensive or totally uncool. And apparently Boomers aren't the only offenders....more

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Why Consumer Finance Companies Should Hit “Delete” On Using Emojis In Business Communications

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A&B ABstract: What does the increased use of emojis in business communications mean for consumer finance companies, and how can risks be mitigated?...more

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Are Your Emojis Saying What You Think They Are? A Cautionary Tale From Harrison V. City Of Tampa

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How are you preserving emojis for ediscovery? Hold on just a minute. Do people really use emojis in a business setting? You bet, though not everyone is on board. But now that offices are more dispersed than ever—and...more

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There’s No One “Right” Version of an Emoji: A Conversation With Eric Goldman

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Eric Goldman, an Internet law professor, gives us an overview of emoji law, including the pros—more precise and nuanced communication—and the cons—more ambiguity and room for misinterpretation. Eric Goldman is a Professor at...more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

Cases Involving Emoticons As Evidence Are On The Rise

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Approximately, one year ago, I authored a blog about emoticons finding their way into the courtroom as purported evidence of a crime or tort (Texter Beware: Emojis as Evidence). Although emoticons began appearing in court...more

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Texter Beware: Emojis As Evidence

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Imagine if the above emojis, casually fired off in a text message (or in an Instagram or Facebook post) to a friend or colleague, could be used against you as evidence of workplace harassment? Or if another combination of...more

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A New Valentine’s Day Conundrum for Employers: Could Emoji Messages Amount to Harassment in the #MeToo Era?

It’s Valentine’s Day yet again, but this year the climate is different for employers. Between the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements, and the near-daily collapse of famous and powerful men (and some women) due to allegations of...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Digital Emotions: The Evidentiary Impact of Emoticons and Emojis

When computer science professor Scott Fahlman posted a sideways smiley face on an electronic message board at Carnegie Mellon University in 1982, he could not possibly have known that combination of dots and dashes would give...more

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