Facebook A No-Go Despite Few Discovery Bids

By Ryan Davis

Law360, New York (October 14, 2009, 10:57 PM ET) -- It remains rare for U.S. companies to be required to produce electronic information from social networking Web sites, but around half of American businesses block employees from using the sites at the office, according to Fulbright & Jaworski LLP's 2009 Litigation Trends Survey.

Houston-based Fulbright & Jaworski released the survey results Thursday, which found that only 4 percent of U.S. companies reported being required to produce social networking data in the past 12 months.

Corporate law departments in the U.K. were also polled in the survey,...
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