So I am just doing a little research and I stumbled upon an American bar association magazine article regarding lawyers and their problems with redacting confidential client information. Click here if you care to read it… https://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/redacting-confidential-client-information
After reading it I realized that what it was saying to me was that Peter Lindborg made serious mistakes by failing to properly redact a document that he filed on behalf of his client.
The article talks about challenges lawyers face… Stating that it is more difficult than it sounds to redact all necessary information; it requires significant attention to detail and ideally layers of review. One of the things that it discusses is wrong ways to redact information which includes changing the font to white blacking out with comment tools or covering text with a black marker… I repeat covering text with a black marker. In numerous filings on a court case involving David Mazor, redacted documents were blacked out using a black marker… And when printed out the blacked out text underneath was often visible, including the email address of a client of WICR. WICR attempted to use this email to show the court, falsely, that they had lost a $50,000 contract. When I realized that I could read the email address of the redacted person I emailed them and was told that they walked away because they had realized that WICR was a problem. Failing to probably redact can lead to the waiver of attorney client privilege, a malpractice lawsuit or even professional discipline.
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