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March 6, 2009
Lessons from the Lawyers: Do You Want Your Business Email or Memo Appearing on a Blog?
Think twice before hitting send. Massachusetts attorney, Robert Ambrogi at Legal Blog Watch, posts Bloggers Have BigLaw Watching Its Back, discussing how lawyers are being careful about what they post in their emails and memos. Ambrogi references an ABA Journal article written by Terry Carter reporting,
...leaking...has law firm leaders exercising caution. ... firms are well aware their private e-mails may end up in the public spotlight....Carter Clayton an assistant managing partner at WilmerHale is quoted in the ABA article saying her firm now vets all firmwide memos, adding "It could be on a blog," she said. "It makes us careful."
Whether you're a business owner, manager, serve on a board of directors, or otherwise, you have to ask yourself, "Am I ready for this email to become public? Or posted on a blog and published for all to see forever and ever?" Exercise "send" with caution.
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