Employees: Think Before You Click "send"

"Don't put this in writing, but ... ".  Those are the opening words of an e-mail that got the author's company in legal hot water.  And there are plenty more where that came from.  “This is off the record," started the e-mail that in fact put it all on the record.  Even worse was "We may be in breach of contract, and here's why."
These examples of troublesome e-mails general counsel say they've run across don't include the countless off color so-called jokes forwarded to contact lists of colleagues, interested or not, or links to Web sites that are definitely not part of a corporate job description.
Learn more about what not to put in writing in emails by reading Kathryn Tucker’s article on Law.com at: http://www.law.com/jsp/ihc/PubArticleIHC.jsp?id=1194516243458