{"id":327,"date":"2017-09-07T14:50:13","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T18:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipmanagement.harnessip.com\/?p=327"},"modified":"2017-09-07T14:58:21","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T18:58:21","slug":"dance-like-no-one-is-watching-email-like-its-being-read-aloud-at-your-deposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipmanagement.harnessip.com\/?p=327","title":{"rendered":"Dance Like No One is Watching; Email Like it&#8217;s Being Read Aloud at your Deposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dance like no one is watching; email like it&#8217;s being read aloud at your deposition &#8212; this sentiment was passed along this morning by a colleague. \u00a0It is good to be periodically reminded to be careful with your business and professional emails:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ipmanagement.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Dance.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-328 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/ipmanagement.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Dance.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ipmanagement.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Dance.jpg 480w, https:\/\/ipmanagement.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Dance-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ipmanagement.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Dance-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When [writing emails] <u>creating exhibits for the inevitable law suit<\/u> consider<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Keep business email professional.<\/li>\n<li>Write as if your mother were reading over your shoulder.<\/li>\n<li>Consider the purpose of the communication.<\/li>\n<li>Consider the audience\/recipients of the information (including a judge and jury).<\/li>\n<li>Be factual; where opinion is called for, identify it as opinion, and make sure that it is germane to the issues; do not give an opinion (<i>e.g.<\/i>, legal) that you are not qualified to give.<\/li>\n<li>Do not make mean or demeaning references to others.<\/li>\n<li>Make your point, but avoid <u><b><i>extreme<\/i><\/b><\/u> emphasis!!!!<\/li>\n<li>Keep business and personal messages separate.<\/li>\n<li>Consider how your characterization of the Company and its activities would be perceived by an outsider.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dance like no one is watching; email like it&#8217;s being read aloud at your deposition &#8212; this sentiment was passed along this morning by a colleague. \u00a0It is good to be periodically reminded to be careful with your business and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ipmanagement.harnessip.com\/?p=327\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipmanagement.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipmanagement.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipmanagement.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipmanagement.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipmanagement.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ipmanagement.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331,"href":"https:\/\/ipmanagement.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions\/331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipmanagement.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipmanagement.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipmanagement.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}