Robert Ambrogi writes:
If I were to leave a document on a table entitled, “My Deepest, Darkest Secrets,” under which I wrote, “Please do not read this unless you are someone I intended to read this,” how securely would you think I’d protected myself?
That, effectively, is all the majority of lawyers do to protect confidential documents they share with clients and colleagues, according to a LexisNexis survey published this week.
The survey found that 89 percent of lawyers use email to collaborate with clients or privileged third parties. In the majority of uses, however, the only precaution lawyers take to protect their email is to include a confidentiality statement in the message body.
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