Date: April 28, 2009 - 2 pm
Category: Advice, Clients, Contracting, Information Management, Privacy and POPI
The days of attorneys working on different drafts of agreements or other legal documents when representing opposing clients, are long gone. Nowadays, Attorney A will prepare and send a first draft to Attorney B, who will take instructions from client and make changes. Attorney A on its turn will confirm the changes with its client and so it will go on until the parties finally reach agreement and the final document is produced.Technology has made or lives so much easier. Or has it?
The majority of attorneys probably have access to email facilities and indeed use technology and email to draft legal documents and send them to clients, counsel, and opposing attorneys. But, the majority of attorneys using these facilities probably do not know that the document as they see it on their computer or email, is not the beginning and the end of the document. Metadata is often not taken into consideration – it is forgotten. If you are wondering what metadata is, you better continue reading.
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Tags: Metadata, POPI, Privacy and POPI
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