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Mayer Brown

When Is Client Contact Information Confidential?

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Confidentiality is a key consideration in any commercial endeavour. To retain a competitive edge in the market, a business will often do its utmost to maintain the confidentiality of client information and business...more

McGuireWoods LLP

Lawyers Beware: Seeking Hard-Copy Printouts of Privileged Emails Can Forfeit the Privilege

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Many of us (especially the older generation) like to deal with hard-copy printouts of electronic communications. But inattention to the printout process can have disastrous results....more

Rivkin Radler LLP

ABA Provides New Guidance On Remote Work For Lawyers

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On March 10, 2021, the American Bar Association released new guidance for attorneys working remotely. While there has never been a distinction in the Model Rules for Professional Conduct between working in a brick-and-mortar...more

Baker Donelson

Rethink How You Communicate with Outside Directors: Certain Communications May Not Be Protected

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A recent decision from the Delaware Court of Chancery is changing how companies communicate confidential information to outside directors. In In re WeWork Litigation, C.A. No. 2020-0258-AGB, a discovery dispute arose within...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Employers May Now Forbid Employees Using Co. Email for Protected Concerted Activities, Forbid Employees from Discussing On-Going...

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The Trump National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) continues to reshape the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA or Act) with new decisions that reverse precedents and undo legal restrictions placed on employers during the Obama...more

Snell & Wilmer

Employers May Require Confidentiality During Ongoing Disciplinary Investigations and Prohibit Use of Company Equipment for...

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Overruling Obama-era precedent, on December 17 the National Labor Relations Board (Board) published two decisions that will significantly affect all employers. In a decision involving a Las Vegas employer, the Board held...more

Gray Reed

Cyberspace Saves an Out-of-State Oil Company

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Can an email be directed to a particular state? No, said a Texas court in Enerquest Oil & Gas, LLC v. Antero Resources Corporation. The court questioned “the very premise of the contention that an email can be sent to a...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

ABA Encourages Encryption of Emails When Transmitting Confidential Client Information

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In a recent formal Ethics Opinion, the American Bar Association stressed that lawyers must make reasonable efforts to prevent inadvertent or unauthorized access to confidential information relating to the representation of...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

ABA Issues Opinion on Use of Email for Lawyers

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On May 11, 2017, The American Bar Association (ABA) updated its 1999 opinion regarding lawyers’ use of email for communication. Although many state bar associations have issued opinions on electronic communications and the...more

Cozen O'Connor

Confidentiality From The Boardroom To The Bedroom

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Sometimes we can learn valuable employment law lessons from even the non-employment law court decisions. What happens if the boardroom meeting to discuss your company’s trade secrets ends up as pillow talk between an...more

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