Barry Temkin Quoted in Lawyers USA, December 21, 2010

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Mound Cotton partner Barry Temkin has been quoted extensively in an article about jurors' social networking pages in the December 2010 issue of Lawyers USA.  Temkin, an ethicist who chairs the New York County Lawyers' Association Professional Ethics Committee, is quoted on matters of legal ethics in the article, "Should Lawyers Monitor Jurors Online?"  According to Temkin, while it is becoming more common for lawyers to visit the Facebook and other social networking sites of sitting jurors during trials, ethics rules in some jurisdictions, notably New York, require lawyers to report juror misconduct to the court.  Juror misconduct may well include publishing their deliberations on the internet.  For more information, please click here  or contact Barry Temkin at btemkin@moundcotton.com.