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The 2-Minute Drill – Your daily legal update
January 3rd, 2011
The 2-Minute Drill
We continue to warn about the dangers of email scams, safe emailing, and protecting the attorney-client privilege. Here are a few more reasons why.
1. In this litigation, in-house counsel for defendant received inadvertent emails from plaintiffs. In-house counsel passed them onto attorneys representing the defendant. The court ruled that act tainted the defendant’s attorneys and ordered them replaced.
2. Mom’s children shared an email account with mom. Mom communicated with her attorneys on that account. Court said that sharing waived her attorney-client privilege.
3. Finally, in what seems a nonsensical decision, a man suspected his wife of an affair. On their shared laptop, he logged into her Google gmail account and found, what he considered incriminating evidence. He turned over the emails. Now he is being prosecuted under an anti-hacking statute.
The 2-Minute Drill – Your daily legal update
December 31st, 2010The 2-Minute Drill
The 2-Minute Drill – Your daily legal update
December 30th, 2010
The 2-Minute Drill
1. Governor McDonnell takes Virginia attorneys’ money, still doesn’t fund vacant judge positions. York County will continue to be without a full-time judge.
2. Shocking. A bill has been proposed to limit car title lending interest rate to 36%. Think about it, that means the lending rate is regularly higher than that!
3. I think I’ll do a post on all the lawyer references in “True Grit.” Some other day. In one scene, Rooster mentions reading Daniel’s treatise on Negotiable Instruments. I looked it up and found this link showing that Daniel may have been a Lynchburg, Va. attorney. How about that?
4. We represent many homeowners associations. Not this one, though. The HOA says inflatable Mickey Mouse is ok, but the “Happy Birthday Jesus” sign, no.
December 2010 Newsletter
December 9th, 2010
