It’s great the way e-mail software autocompletes addresses for you — except when it puts in the wrong one.

That’s what happened to Braun Hagey partner J. Noah Hagey. But it wasn’t a total disaster, as it kicked off a chain of events that culminated last week with an eye-popping protective order booting his opposing counsel and in-house lawyers off a case in federal court. Here’s what happened. Hagey represents a handful of engineers in Oakland, California, who in September left engineering and design firm Arcadis to start their own shop, Terraphase Engineering.

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