Considering recent news
about the Exxon corporation sending out
document retention request letters against those who accuse it of hoodwinking its shareholders
about the certainty of catastrophic man - caused global warming, there is perhaps some chance that my work may be used as a guide on «who» needs to preserve «what» in such efforts.
That includes a more co-operative relationship such as meeting with the other side early on to devise an e-discovery strategy but also for in - house counsel and their legal advisers to plan ahead in terms of having
document -
retention strategies and such as a matter of course instead of only thinking
about it once a lawsuit rears its head.
109 See Hazelwood, supra note 19, at 286 — 89 (listing a number of ethical issues surrounding email that legal writing courses could raise, including third - party access / interception, metadata, data
retention, and inadvertent disclosure); Dragnich, supra note 36 at 15 (discussing how an email assignment could include lessons
about confidentiality, attorney - client privilege, and «contemporary issues such as information security and removal of metadata prior to transmitting
documents»); Tracy Turner, E-mail Etiquette in the Business World, 18 No. 1 Persps.: Teaching Legal Research & Writing 18, 19 — 20 (2009)(discussing ethical and professional email issues, including when to use email versus other forms of communication, forwards and replies, and CC and BCC use); see also Shapo, supra note 3, at 345 («If you are forwarding a message to another attorney, for example, check that there is nothing in the thread that is not for the eyes of that recipient.