Every document production to the Department of Justice (DOJ) contains some variation of the disclaimer “FOIA Confidential Treatment Requested Pursuant to Rule 6(e).” But how much protection does this ...

A recent decision by Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht) (“FCC”) [1] has renewed important questions with respect to legal privilege, its varied conceptual and practical ...

The latest versions of Microsoft Word and Excel serve up several options for securing your documents, including read-only mode, password protection, editing restrictions, and digital signatures. You ...

I will never forget a memo I received back in the late 1990s. At the time, I was working as an author for a tech journal. The company I worked for sent out a memo warning us to be careful about ...

A recommended approach to secure your most private documents — whether it’s a PDF, Word file, or Excel spreadsheet — is to lock them with a passcode. While this does help keep sensitive content safe, ...