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By Professor Nancy Rapoport

Dear Readers:

What can we learn from the criminal indictments of some of the folks at Dewey & LeBeouf? So, so much:

  1. All of us know that emails are discoverable under most circumstances, and yet, you’d be surprised by how many lawyers (and, yes, law professors) put the most damning things in emails. In the Dewey example, here are a few quotes from . . .

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