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&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;Former Villanova law school dean Mark Sargent infamously observed that &amp;#8220;the internet really is &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;a kind of hell&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;.&amp;#8221;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;(And &lt;a href=&quot;http://philadelphia.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/blogs/law/2009/07/villanova_dean_resigned_over_prostitution.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;how little he realized&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;the time!) &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;Obviously, one of the (potentially) hellish aspects of the internets is that it preserves the past, forever.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;This has been an issue with job seekers for years : Even if they claim not to, all companies can be assumed to google applicants and check social networking sites as an informal background check.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202432052393&amp;amp;src=EMC-Email&amp;amp;et=editorial&amp;amp;bu=Law.com&amp;amp;pt=LAWCOM%20Newswire%20Update&amp;amp;cn=LAWCOM_NewswireUpdate_20090707&amp;amp;kw=Lawyers%20Warn%20Employers%20Against%20Giving%20Glowing%20Reviews%20on%20LinkedIn&quot; target=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202432052393&amp;amp;src=EMC-Email&amp;amp;et=editorial&amp;amp;bu=Law.com&amp;amp;pt=LAWCOM%20Newswire%20Update&amp;amp;cn=LAWCOM_NewswireUpdate_20090707&amp;amp;kw=Lawyers%20Warn%20Employers%20Against%20Giving%20Glowing%20Reviews%20on%20LinkedIn&quot; target=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The National Law Journal&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;, &lt;/em&gt;t&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;his dynamic&amp;#8212;where the web&amp;#8217;s permanence poses a problem for an employee or applicant&amp;#8212;could potentially be reversed, and come back to haunt the employer.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;Anyway, you may want to get your boss to give you that LinkedIn recommendation sooner rather than later&amp;#8212;before the management-side employment bar scares everyone off:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot;&gt;&amp;#8220;[Social networking sites] could prove problematic if a plaintiff&amp;#8217;s lawyer is mining these sites&amp;#8230; because of the explosion in LinkedIn&#39;s use, we suspect at some point that we&#39;re going to see its use pop up in litigation. It&#39;s probably only a matter of time.&quot; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;[One management-side attorney] has handled several wrongful termination lawsuits in which an employer claimed that an employee was let go due to job performance issues, but the employee claimed it was discrimination- or harassment-related. To bolster their argument, he said, the employee can now turn to LinkedIn and say, &quot;and here&#39;s the proof.&amp;#8221;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;Another lawyer chimes in: &quot;If&amp;nbsp;[the employers]&amp;nbsp;say something negative, there could be a lawsuit. If they say something positive, there could be a lawsuit.&quot;&amp;nbsp; She neglected to add: &quot;Either way works for me.&quot;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; -posted by brian&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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