Although an email sender has a legitimate expectation of privacy in the contents of his or her email while a message is in transit over the Internet, (See U.S. v. Maxwell.), most email is transmitted unencrypted (in clear text) and easily read if it is intercepted or otherwise “found” before it reaches its final destination. So why do lawyers communicate to clients, and to other lawyers about clients, using unencrypted email?
Because it’s easy. And to date, the tradeoff between easy and using a more secure, perhaps more difficult-to-use, email workflow leaves most lawyers on easy street. But today IronBox has made email security easy for lawyers who use Microsoft Corp. Outlook 2007, 2010 and 2013 on a Windows PC. Tim Riley, co-founder and CEO of IronBox, explained the new “easy” but secure messaging scheme to Law Technology News.
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