On Demand

Essentials

Smartphones, Social Media, and Divorce

1h 3m

Created on December 09, 2019

Beginner

CC

Overview

This course is part of the Lawline Classics collection, featuring timeless content that remains valuable for learning and reference but is no longer available for CLE credit.


Social media allows us to share content instantaneously with multiple individuals. Smartphones further enhance our ability to share content. They also provide us with enormous ease of use by storing private information.  Often times, litigants in family proceedings do not understand or even realize how their digital footprint can affect their pending family law matter. Join Angela Scafuri, Shareholder at Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer in exploring the multiple ways family lawyers can utilize smartphone data and social media in their family law matters.


Learning Objectives:

  1. Explore social media's impact on family law practice
  2. Identify Privacy Issues
  3. Examine authentication and admissibility issues
  4. Gain hot tips for smartphone use and data utilization


Please note that this course reflects information available at the time of filming, and some updates or changes may have occurred since then.

Faculty

Angela Scafuri

Angela Scafuri

Partner | Townsend Tomaio & Newmark LLC

Ms. Scafuri is a partner at Cadicina Law in Morristown, New Jersey, where she works with clients on issues including alimony and child support, custody and parenting time, the drafting of pre-marital, separation and property settlement agreements, civil union dissolution and domestic violence matters.  She represents clients in family law litigation as well as alternative dispute resolution methods such as mediation, arbitration and collaborative practice.

 Ms. Scafuri is a Certified Matrimonial Attorney by the Supreme Court of New Jersey.  She is an accredited mediator in both family and civil matters and has been trained as a collaborative law attorney.  Ms. Scafuri is admitted to the roster of Mediators for Economic Aspects of Family Law Cases for several New Jersey counties and serves as a Matrimonial Early Settlement Panelist for Morris County.   

She has been consistently recognized by Best Lawyers in both Family Law and Family Law Mediation and in New Jersey Super Lawyers and New Jersey Monthly as one of the state’s top “Super Lawyers." Since 2021, Angela has been routinely recognized by Morris Health and Life for family law.  In  2021, Angela was named in Super Lawyer's Top 50 Women Attorneys in New Jersey as well as recognized by NJ Biz as a “Leader in the Law.”  She has been previously recognized by her peers as one of the “Top 40 Under 40” by the New Jersey Law Journal.  

Angela is the Immediate Past President of the Morris County Bar Association and a Past President of the Morris County Bar Foundation.  She also serves on the Matrimonial Board for the New Jersey Association for Justice, Matrimonial Committee Family Law Practice Committee.


Bar Admissions:
New Jersey


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