Watch Your Back
You'd better be careful--your company's e-mail messages could come back to haunt you in court.
If you thought the "e" in e-mail stood for"electronic," wise up. Nowadays, good old e-mail islikely to be "evidence" if you, your company or any ofyour employees is the target of a legal attack.
That's the lesson being hammered home across the countryover the past few years, beginning with Bill Gates' televisedfailures to recall embarrassing e-mail dredged up duringMicrosoft's antitrust hearings. Gates and Microsoft escapedthat incident without serious damage, but the costs of failure topolice e-mail are going up. Last fall, for instance, a manager at aWall Street investment firm was sentenced to one to three years injail, fined $400,000, and barred from the securities industry forlife for destroying e-mail sought by prosecutors in a tradingscandal.
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