Reading confidential information that an opposing lawyer emails by mistake is not grounds for automatic disqualification of the recipient from a case, the Florida Third District Court of Appeal in Miami ruled.
“The events that transpired in this case are not attributable to unethical conduct,” Judge Leslie Rothenberg wrote in the unanimous decision Wednesday. “Instead, they illustrate some of the adverse consequences resulting from the injection of technology into today’s modern and busy law practice.”
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