The National Center for State Courts has created an online Resource Guide on Social Media and the Courts. This Guide provides lists of courts which are employing social media like Twitter and Facebook and information on the impact of social media on juries in the courtroom, social justice, judicial elections, and other topics. The new site also provides a link to the December 2010 Ohio Judicial Ethics Opinion which indicates that a judge can be a "friend" on a social networking site with a lawyer in a case pending before the judge, as long as the judge does it "carefully," whatever that means.
