Today’s post at Attorney at Work is “Give Final Documents a Good Scrubbing,” by Deborah Savadra. It’s a useful reminder of the simple steps you can take to avoid creating problems for yourself by unwittingly sending the other side a draft that discloses information you’d rather not have disclosed.
Information doesn’t have to constitute a state secret in order for you to prefer that it be deleted. For example, if you copy a document created by Fred Smith, you might well prefer that Fred Smith not be noted in metadata as the author of the new document.