Did you write an e-mail today? It could be worth a million dollars! Not to you...to your opponents...as a smoking gun that will nail your company and you into a staggering jury verdict.

Are you aware of all the paper trails you leave behind? Aside from emails, you may be creating smoking guns right now in memos, files, or planners that will come back to haunt you in someone else's hands. You could be your own worst enemy!

   

ISBN 0-971604-1-5
Smoking Guns and Paper Trails

 

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  Your desktops, laptops, and palmtops are already "smoking." In fact, everything you say, do, or write can become a breeding ground to trap you, or your company, if you don’t know the system. But you CAN work smarter…and stay ahead of the game.

Jack Tapper, a seasoned defense counsel and risk management expert with over 30 years’ in the field, including 10 of them as a Fortune 500 in-house counsel, talks straight-talk, no legal mumbo-jumbo, in this eye-opening book for all business-minded people. He shows you how, why, when, and where these smoking guns appear in your workplace, and what you need to know so your words and actions won’t backfire from the business page to the front page, or wind up as a courtroom exhibit on a magnified projection screen.

If you’re a business-minded and career-conscious person—no matter what field or rank—Smoking Guns and Paper Trails is a "must-read" from a master at pre-emptive risk management controls. Heed the call and gain the advantage—before the other side takes it!
   
CHAPTER EXCERPTS
 
Table of Contents

Introduction

Chap.3 Excerpt
E-mails & E-files


Chap.4 Excerpt
The Other Breeding Grounds


Chap.5 Excerpt
The Paper Shuffle


A Sampling of Tapper's Tips
Straight Talk from the Master
 
 
  Here’s just some of what you’ll discover:

•Nine e-mail traps that can bury you in T-R-0-U-B-L-E

•How your deleted e-mails and files are still retrievable and smoking

•More than 22 breeding grounds for smoking guns, and why you’d better know them

•How "confidential" documents are a myth, but there’s one kind you can keep secret, IF you don’t make the wrong moves

•Which co-workers are "loose cannons" for smoking guns, and what to do if you’re one of them

•How janitorial services infiltrate your workplace, and put you and your company at risk, every night

•11 Commandments your spokesperson better know to deal with the media and avoid "dancing with wolves"

•8 "must know" rules for crisis management when it all "hits the fan"

•How to work smarter with Tapper’s 20 Point Company Guide for E-mail and Internet Usage Policies

•How trial lawyers get to see, and copy, your personal home computer drives

•How you can still clean-up your files the "legal" way (even after Enron and Worldcom and Arthur Andersen) BEFORE it’s too late

•PLUS: 126 TAPPER’S TIPS filled with the Master’s advice to keep you out of trouble and out of the evening news
   
  You NEED this book ...if you are in any business or profession and don't want to fall into the traps that build huge jury awards for your opponents.

Keep it on your desk for daily reference, to keep reminding you of what to do, what NOT to do.

Buy a copy today….BEFORE the subpoena arrives demanding you turn over all your files, emails, and a copy of your hard drives to your opposition. And don’t forget your laptop and your home computer because they’re easy prey, too.

   
 
   

 

 

 

 

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