Odd how lawyers did not stick to the basic rule of letting off steam/having arguments face to face or by phone! Reminds me of the e-mail banter between bankers in London when they were basically fiddling the LIBOR rates. Perhaps it takes a generation to fully understand a new communications technology.
Even before I clicked the link, I knew it would be by Matt Levine. He writes excellent Bloomberg View pieces. He formerly wrote for dealbreaker.com, a snarky site that covers the travails and misdeeds of Wall Street.
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Pretty interesting and humorous write up about the e-mails between the financial leaders of the firm: http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-03-06/law-firm-ac...
Odd how lawyers did not stick to the basic rule of letting off steam/having arguments face to face or by phone! Reminds me of the e-mail banter between bankers in London when they were basically fiddling the LIBOR rates. Perhaps it takes a generation to fully understand a new communications technology.
Rule #1: The e in email is for "evidence".
Maybe most of them do, and we never learn about it. We learn only about the sloppy ones.
The technology firms seem a lot more capable at keeping their illegal conspiracies from being written to storage.
Like these tech firms? http://rt.com/usa/apple-google-low-wages-collusion-169/
When all is said and done - they're a bunch of monkeys - just like the rest of us.
Even before I clicked the link, I knew it would be by Matt Levine. He writes excellent Bloomberg View pieces. He formerly wrote for dealbreaker.com, a snarky site that covers the travails and misdeeds of Wall Street.