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Careless E-mails Create Problems in Employment: Loose Lips Sink Ships

 
“Late last week, a political firestorm brewed over the hacking of various email accounts belonging to politicians and national security officials. It was reported that the hack revealed that Colin Powell, the almost universally well-liked and well-regarded retired general, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs and Secretary of State, had some less than kind things to say about the current crop of presidential candidates. Powell’s emails, for example, reportedly used provocative words like “national disgrace” in one instance and “greedy” and “unbridled ambition” in another instance to describe the candidates.

All of this is interesting you say, but what does this have to do with employment? Answer: Everything.

People tend to be chatty on email; even sophisticated statesmen like Colin Powell who outwardly appear more reserved. By contrast, letters are formal affairs that are printed on paper, mailed, and exist in the real world. You can touch a letter with your hands, make copies of it, and put it in a drawer for safekeeping. Emails, on the other hand, are inherently informal. “

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Hannesson Murphy is a partner in Barnes & Thornburg LLP’s Indianapolis office and a member of the firm’s Labor and Employment Law Department. Mr. Murphy has extensive experience counseling and advising employers in all aspects of managing the employment relationship with their workforce.

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Hannesson I. Murphy

Hannesson I. Murphy

Barnes & Thornburg LLP

  • Partner in Barnes & Thornburg LLP’s Indianapolis, Indiana office and a member of the firm’s Labor and Employment Law Department
  • Represents employers in virtually all aspects of the employment relationship with their employees, including counseling employers with respect to the hiring, discipline and separation of employees, and if necessary, the representation of employers in connection with litigated disputes
  • Represented employers in a wide variety of matters before state and federal courts, administrative agencies, and in arbitration, including individual and class or collective action claims relating to issues such as discrimination, harassment or wrongful discharge, alleged violations of the terms and conditions of employment, unemployment claims, wage and hour claims, and litigation concerning noncompetition and nonsolicitation agreements
  • Active in the legal community and recently served as the chair of the Employment Law Section of the Defense Trial Counsel of Indiana
  • Admitted to practice in Indiana, Florida, the District of Columbia, the U.S. Supreme Court, the Seventh and Eleventh Circuit Courts of Appeal, and all U.S. District Courts for Indiana and Florida
  • B.A. degree in international relations, cum laude, Florida International University; J.D. degree, cum laude, Miami School of Law

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