Company Social Media Accounts

Many companies have a presence on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook or a blog to engage current customers and reach out to new ones.

If your company maintains its own social media account, you will also want to set guidelines for its use. There may be issues regarding who owns your social media account if, for instance, your chief social media author leaves employment and tries to take the social media accounts with him/her. The employer may have claims relating to trade secrets and misappropriation.

On the other hand, employees may also have claims. In one case, a director of marketing