e-Meetings, the now nearly standard second “conference room” of many commerce ventures and consulting-service providers, like traditional meetings, are simply any prearranged gathering for the purpose of discussing business or other affairs.
e-Meetings: The Same As, And Different From, Traditional Meetings
e-Meetings have the same Constitutional protections and require lawyers to take the same precautions to preserve associated privilege as they must in traditional meetings. It is important then for counsel advising e-businesses and those conducting e-meetings to note ' and for those participating in them ' that e-meetings impose the same ethics requirements for confidentiality that traditional meetings do. <br>But the ethereal nature of e-meetings can induce in participants and counsel a false sensation of security, which is something to guard against. This false sense of security is erroneously based on the belief that the Internet hides identity, and that because of that, confidentiality perhaps needn't be a concern.
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Jonathan Bick
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