Appellate Division Reverses Trial Court and Holds that Employee Did Not Waive Attorney/Client Privilege by Using Web-Based Email on a Company Computer

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On April 22, 2009, we wrote about Stengart v. Loving Care Agency, Inc., a case in which the New Jersey Superior Court held that an employee who used her personal web-based Yahoo email account on the company’s computer to communicate with her attorney waived her attorney-client privilege. In a sharp rebuke of the trial court, on June 26, 2009, the Appellate Division reversed the lower court’s decision and held that, “the policies undergirding the attorney-client privilege substantially outweigh the employer’s interest in enforcement of its unilaterally imposed regulation…” In so holding, the court first recognized the ambiguities in the employer’s handbook policies.

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