I was sent an email by the someone I have done some work for. I believe I was inadvertently copied because the email was addressed to the party's lawyer. She had apparently been replying (RE:)because the body of the letter contained several other messages with different dates and subjects. There were several issues that I'm sure I wasn't supposed to see. My question: what should I do with this information? Should the attorney and the original party be informed that the subject matter has been sent to a wrong party? I'm not sure what to do. Thanks!
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Happens all of the time...
This type of thing is fairly common. You aren't the first person to get an email by accident and I doubt that you'll be the last.
The first thing to do is to see if the email has a disclaimer. Most highly confidential email contains some kind of instructions for how to use it and those instructions usually include some guidance on what to do if you get it.
Beyond that, there isn't much legal guidance. Since you didn't want to receive the email and did nothing to arrange getting it, there isn't much accountability on your part.
What most people do in your situation is reply back to the email and let the sender know that you received the message in error and that you are deleting the email.
Once you've done that just delete the email immediately and resist the temptation to snoop through it. That's both bad practice legally and ethically.
Mistakes happen all of the time but if you don't notify the sender of the error, what could happen is that the information in it leaks out another way. They'll go through the email history, see that you received an errant copy and you'll be a much larger suspect than if you had just dealt with the situation then and there.
The odds of that happening are, of course, highly unlikely, but there is no way I can see this coming down on you so long as you are honest, delete the email and handle the situation professionally.
Now the person who sent it... Well, that's a different matter.
Let's just say that said person needs to be glad you are honest...
Hope that helps! Let me know if you have any further questions!
Jonathan Bailey - plagiarismtoday.com
same thing just happened to
same thing just happened to me. a guy's lawyer was telling him how to respond to my business development inquiry. it will be interesting to see what happens now and if the lawyer responds to my email.
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