Recent Ruling Reinforces Need to Protect Documents When Employees Leave in Order to Preserve Confidentiality and Privilege

A recent ruling from the federal district court in Minnesota reinforces the idea that an employer needs to take active steps to assure that an employee does not take otherwise confidential or privileged documents when the employee leaves the company, or the confidentiality or privilege is likely to be waived. In today’s world of electronically stored information and documents, this becomes increasingly difficult. 

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