Wisconsin Lawyer
Vol. 80, No. 8, August 2007
A law firm received a great deal of offensive and pornographic spam. It had a spam filter, but a lot was still slipping by. So the law firm dialed up its spam filter and then missed an emailed court notice of a hearing. The judge hit the firm with an order requiring it to pay the costs and the fees of the opposing counsel who appeared at the hearing.
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Lawyers who practice in any case management/electronic case filing court, should have a whitelist feature on their spam filter. A whitelist feature allows email from certain users to go through to the recipient, no matter what it triggers in the spam filter.
Like it or not, once you have "agreed" to receive notices via email, you just can't plead "my spam filter ate my homework." If your spam filter does not have a whitelist feature, then you need a new one.
Source: Jim Calloway's Law Practice Tips Blog, found on WisBar's Practice 411 Advice Alert.
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