In a case that will directly impact how people in New Jersey communicate with their lawyers while at work, the state Supreme Court on Wednesday considered whether e-mails sent through an employer’s system — but via the employee’s personal, Web-based, password-protected account — are protected by the attorney-client privilege.
At loggerheads in Stengart v. Loving Care Agency , A-16-09, are a company’s policy that says employees’ Internet use will be monitored and an employee’s perceived expectation of privacy when she used her Yahoo account to speak to her attorney about a pending lawsuit against the company.
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