Every modern commercial real estate transaction, or other business transaction, takes place largely through email. If it’s a major or complicated transaction, it will involve dozens of email recipients and senders – business people, lawyers, brokers, title companies, other service providers, and so on. Each email will beget a stream of additional emails as each recipient replies, adds a little something to the discussion, and then sends their response to everyone. The bloated disclosures and caveats automatically added to the end of each new email response don’t help. It all becomes overwhelming.
As one reaction to these massive email strings, in many cases lawyers seem to be leaving their clients out of the email loop. Instead, the strings of ever-expanding emails just circulate among the lawyers and other service providers. When some issue requires involvement of the clients, the lawyers take it up separately with their clients without dragging the clients into every communication within the larger group.
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