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Focus (Forum & Focus)

Jul. 15, 2008

E-mail Communication Can Be Dangerous During Litigation

When used during litigation, e-mail often drastically escalates conflict in ways none of us fully appreciate, writes Victoria Pynchon. - Forum Column

FORUM COLUMN

By Victoria Pynchon
This article appears on Page 6

      This story occurs in the spring of 2001, a year I'd dreamed of since elementary school. But the technological changes predicted in the science fiction of my childhood and adolescence are nothing like the "hi-tech" I'm living with now. There are no one-man jets cruising the skies; no robots running my errands or cooking my dinner; no tele-transportat...

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