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With email etiquette like this, you'd think he had gone to Columbia

Everything is just the worst.

Tech columnist Jeff Bennion argues that we could communicate more effectively and de-clutter our inboxes if we stop using email as the only method of communication in the office.

A prosecutor brings his dog into the office on the weekend. An amusing email exchange ensues.

Bigotry on open display thanks to a "reply all" mishap.

It might be too many viewings of Jerry Maguire, but sports agents seem really cool.

How can you fight back against so-called "patent trolls"?

Becker & Poliakoff issues yet another statement about how they won't fire a homophobe.

And now, time for some damage control.

"Reply all" hate speech like it's 1982.

Is this partner's firm-wide email message funny, or offensive, or both, or neither?

People come to the defense of an email message they view as both hilarious and necessary.

Is this partner's firm-wide email awful, or entertaining, or both?

What are the rules for when deans email in secret?

A senior associate at Clifford Chance uses the reply-all email function to send an angry, masturbatory message to his coworkers...

A Quinn Emanuel partner recently sent a "reply all" email that was, er, not very politically correct. What on earth did he write (to the entire New York office)?

A partner at Morrison & Foerster accidentally "replied all" to an email on which "List/Attorney/All" was cc'd. Emails sent to "List/Attorney/All" go out to all 1,000-plus MoFo lawyers around the world. What the partner wrote in the email was probably not something that should have been shared with the rest of the firm....

Those of you who have been in the legal profession long enough remember the tale of Jonas Blank. While working as a summer associate at Skadden, he inadvertently sent an irreverent email, intended for a single friend, to the firm’s entire underwriting group (partners included). Whoops. But the firm was forgiving of young Jonas. He […]

Last week, we wrote about Villanova University School of Law running out of work-study funds. Over the weekend, we received several copies of an interesting follow-up email — one that went to every 1L and 2L at Villanova, as well as every dean. Some background, from a tipster: This email is sent as-is, with typos […]