The $26 Hack That Should Terrify Every Law Firm
What the Pentagon’s Unencrypted Predator Drone Teaches Attorneys About Privilege, Cyber Hygiene, and the Principle of Least Privilege
Email Security
The Backdoor to Your Client’s Privilege
attorney-client privilege violations. Your legal tech provider has no
Your Client’s Voice Just Authorized a $442,600 Wire Transfer. It Wasn’t Your Client.
Every person on that video call was an AI-generated deepfake.
I Was Inside EMC When Hackers Stole the Keys to 40 Million Doors: What the RSA Breach Teaches Law Firms
one phishing email. Supply chain attacks threaten law firms the same
When Attorneys Stop Checking AI’s Work: The Anthropomorphism Liability
On July 17, 2025, Judge David Leibowitz of the Southern District of Florida opened his sanctions order with a quotation from the late Justice Antonin Scalia on the importance of candor in judicial proceedings. The quotation was an AI hallucination.
The Success Story That Left Out the Shareholders: Texas Corporate Law Reform
On November 4, 2025, eight trusts controlled by Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong and co-founder Fred Ehrsam signed a written consent approving the reincorporation of Coinbase Global from Delaware to Texas. The trusts held 78.4% of voting power. They called no shareholder meeting.
The Email Disclaimer Delusion: Why Your Signature Block Won’t Save Your Privilege
In June 2014, a senior litigation counsel at Unilever sent an educational email to 46 managers in her organization. Buried inside the email’s confidentiality disclaimer, she hid a message: respond with a specific phrase in the subject line, and you win a prize.
The Email Privacy Illusion: Part 3 of 3 — What Healthcare Figured Out That Law Hasn’t
In March 2018, a family law attorney in Columbus, Ohio, discovered that her client’s estranged husband had been reading every email she sent for eleven months.
The Email Privacy Illusion: Part 2 of 3 — You Encrypted Everything. It Doesn’t Matter.
In 2014, three weeks into a wrongful termination production at EMC/Kazeon, a paralegal flagged an anomaly in the plaintiff’s email collection. The plaintiff’s attorney had used a properly configured Microsoft Exchange server with Transport Layer Security encryption.
The Email Privacy Illusion: Part 1 of 3 — Your Free Email Account Is Reading Everything You Send
In September 2016, a paralegal on our Kazeon eDiscovery team at EMC finished imaging the email account of a solo practitioner in Northern California. The collection order covered four years of client communications.