How to Get Attorneys to Read Something: E-Mail Them Telling Them Not to

March 9, 2010

According to a lawyer with Fowler White Burnett, the firm recently e-mailed all its attorneys, telling them not to read a Daily Business Review article that detailed a juicy lawsuit filed against the firm and Lilly Ann Sanchez, head of the firm's white-collar division and a former federal prosecutor. The apparent result of the e-mail: just the opposite of what the firm intended.