Delaware Chancery Court Rules That Fiduciary’s Use of Email Account Provided by Separate Employer Destroys Privilege

On December 22, 2020, in litigation between WeWork and the Softbank Group, the Delaware Court of Chancery determined that the Softbank Group must hand over several dozen otherwise privileged emails because two SoftBank representatives used email accounts at a different company (where they were also employed) and thus the confidentiality and privilege of the communications were destroyed......
By: Fenwick & West LLP

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