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Hedge Fund Manager Sends Game-Changing E-mail

This video and blog post should be cited in any case where an executive asserts attorney-client privilege: "Whenever I write an email that has those words, 'You should start to think about foreclosing on these people...' you'll notice that I CC Tom..." "What I'm trying to do there is create attorney client privilege. So that's a signal, that's a way for us to shield ourselves." In the video, Max Holmes, the founder of Plainfield Asset Management, admits that his lawyer has "no clue" about "hundreds of e-mails" that Holmes sends each year. The lawyer is not giving or offering legal advice. Instead, Max Holmes is trying to shield non-protected communications. (That's the best case. The worst case is that he's using his lawyer to cover-up fraud...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on January 11, 2011 (boomark / email).