Legal depositions aim to establish timelines and a narrative. Given that, if you enter a deposition without one of SMI Aware’s Deep Reports, you are not fully prepared. Deposition preparation with social media information is helpful to legal teams.
A Deep Report early in discovery helps to establish a timeline of social media posts before a person might decide to take something down or edit themselves.
Deposition Preparation with Social Media Data
We argue for a three-pronged approach to deposition preparation: Ahead of Time, Alongside, and After. At each interval in the deposition process, SMI Aware helps uncover valuable information for legal discovery.
As soon as a legal team identifies a person to be deposed, an in-depth social media background check should be commissioned. A Deep Report helps to establish a timeline of social media posts before a person might decide to take something down or edit themselves.
Next, we advise legal clients to run a second Deep Report one or two days ahead of the deposition. A second look provides an updated look at whether anything has been added, or more crucially, deleted.
Running a Deep Report after a deposition can also be telling. Many times, reports indicate if information was deleted or reposted. Sometimes, subjects even comment on the deposition online. Essentially, this information enables a legal team to show that the narrative changed over time.
SMI Aware has years of experience working with the nation’s top law firms across a range of cases, including class-action lawsuits. As such, we work closely with our clients to identify the most relevant information; we don’t just aggregate data. We rank the results by relevancy and provide analysis based on the criteria outlined by the clients. We also consider how the reports will be distributed and pick the format that makes the most sense for each project.
After years of working with multiple legal teams, we know all the questions to ask ahead of time so that each SMI Aware custom Deep Report delivers maximum impact for your case.
If you have a deposition coming up, contact us to run a Deep Report.
