Insights
Client Alert
E-mail: A Trap for the Unwary
July 01, 2003
Jay Rodriguez & Kelly Koelker
Recent Wall Street scandals have illustrated that e-mail can be a potent weapon in the hands of a prosecutor or plaintiff s lawyer. The tendency to treat e-mail as an informal means of communication has led many people to say things in an e-mail that they would never say in person or in a memorandum. This informal correspondence can provide an adversary with damning evidence. Consequently, many lawyers have come to think of e-mail as shorthand for evidence mail.