Smoking Guns and Paper Trails: How Your Words and Actions in the Workplace Backfire : What You Need to Know to Protect Yourself and Your Company

by Tapper, Jack

ISBN13:
9780971608412
ISBN10:
0971608415
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 2003-03-01
Publisher: Simon-William Pub
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Summary

From emails to voicemails, laptops to desktops, what you say, do, or write in the workplace can backfire into a smoking gun. In this eye-opening guide, a risk management expert and Fortune 500 defense counsel talks straight-talk, no legalese, and shows you what you need to know to keep your words and actions from stumbling into the traps that create smoking guns.

Introduction The world of smoking guns

(9)

Loose Cannons

(22)

Traits that breed smoking guns

Rules of Engagement

(28)

How ``the other side'' invades your fortress

E-mails and E-files

(30)

The electronic world of smoking guns

The ``Other'' Breeding Grounds

(58)

Beyond E-mails and E-files

Communications

(19)

Risk Management

111

(21)

Employment

132

(9)

Infrastructure

141

(6)

The Paper Shuffle

147

(16)

Managing the ``paper trail''

The Privacy Trap

163

(10)

Guarding your customers' personal data

Accessing Company Secrets

173

(14)

``Password'' to gold

The Attorney-Client Privileged Communication

187

(16)

Last bastion of secrecy

Crisis Management

203

(22)

When it all ``hits the fan''

Lessons Learned: Managing PR

225

(18)

Avoiding ``foot-in-mouth'' blunders

Feeling the Pain

243

(20)

Punitive damages and the smoking gun connection

Act Now or Pay Later!

263

(22)

Document retention...and more

Epilogue

285

(4)

About the Author

289

(4)

Index

293

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