Much has been made of what you might call (only if you are a lazy blogger) DLA-gate. The story of the associates and their jolly email japes about bill padding. Except the jokes don’t look so jolly now they have escaped the DLA-servers.
Amusing as it might be to see the joke now turned on the jokers, it would be wrong to draw any conclusions about DLA as a firm or its culture from the content of those emails. I’m willing to bet that most organisations, not just law firms, have some emails hiding on their servers that would – if taken literally and out of context – show that organisation in a bad light. That’s email for you and you can’t control the uncontrollable. So anyone doing too much hand-wringing at the email etiquette of others had better keep their fingers crossed that their luck holds in the future.
