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New Jersey High Court Protects Employees’ Right to Personal Emails

By Natarajan LLP

New Jersey employers: employees have a limited right to access and send personal emails to their attorney on company computers, and you have no authority to read them. This watershed rule was announced in Stengart v. Loving Care Agency, Inc.,1 where the New Jersey Supreme Court unanimously held that an employee had a reasonable expectation of privacy in emails between the employee and her attorney which were sent and received through a web-based email account accessed on laptop provided by her employer.

Condominiums vs. Cooperatives: A Basic Primer

By Anand Natarajan

A real estate purchaser in an urban area needs to understand the difference between cooperative buildings and condominium buildings before they begin their property search.

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A New Target for Defamation Suits: The Grassroots Blogger

By Anand Natarajan

First it was wronged consumers posting negative reviews about vendors on online forums. Now bloggers posting entries about everything from allegedly crooked politicians to evil landlords are increasingly becoming the defendants of choice in defamation lawsuits, sometimes over entries that are no longer than a few words. While at one time many forum surfers did not have the assets or the recognition to be worthwhile targets for the likes of big business and wealthy individuals, websites such as Wordpress and Twitter have given an online voice to millions of people, many of which have everything to lose in costly and protracted litigation.
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