A New Year’s e-Resolution: Sending Safe e-Mail

The risks associated with e-mail miscommunication and misdirection have been well documented. Because these risks originate from e-mail users, perhaps the best way to mitigate such risks is to help individual e-mail users remember and implement a checklist for sending e-mails safely. This client alert, authored by K&L Gates Partner Thomas Smith and Associate Daniel Miller, presents a simple mnemonic device for "SAFE E-MAIL" that can remind individual e-mail users of key issues to consider when drafting and sending e-mail messages.

To view the complete alert online, click here.