NYLJ: Personal Email at Work: What Expectation of Privacy?

NYLJ: Personal Email at Work: What Expectation of Privacy? by Robert J. Jossen and Neil A. Steiner:

Dechert’s Robert J. Jossen and Neil A. Steiner write: A recent decision from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York highlights the personal risk that an employee’s use of a work email account to send or receive otherwise privileged and confidential communications – for example, with a spouse, personal lawyer, or doctor – will be deemed a waiver of the applicable privilege.