Need some lawyer-related business advice, if you're willing.
At my past company, every regulatory submission I created had the application number, "CONFIDENTIAL" and the page n of x stamped at the bottom (in a row across). It was standard, and we did it across all documents.
At current job, boss says that to stamp "confidential" on the bottom of a page that already has "confidential" on it elsewhere actually degrades the strength of the implied confidentiality. So instead of using my page stamper on the entire (sometimes hundreds of pages!)document, I have to painstakingly go through the entire doc and only stamp "confidential" on the pages without that word already somewhere on the page.
So, this seems silly to me. Is it true that the "confidential" more than once degrades the concept? I'd love to know if this is a myth she heard somewhere or if it's true.
You have a stamp with the page number???
So, this seems silly to me. Is it true that the "confidential" more than once degrades the concept? I'd love to know if this is a myth she heard somewhere or if it's true.
It seems silly to me too.
Sophia, I use a software program with a stamping tool - sorry I wasn't clearer on that.
That is extremely dumb. Two confidentials make a non-confidential? Where it's completely common to stamp every page confidential? WTF?
ETA: like what court/regulator is going to say, "well, this page says it's confidential, but this stamp also indicates it's confidential, so clearly the intention was to disclose this page exclusively."
Is Gmail being wonky for anyone else or am I just in the office corner with crappy wifi?
Our confidential stuff is marked in the document footer regardless of the text on the page. Not sure how that holds up in court, but that is our standard practice.
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Sophia, I use a software program with a stamping tool - sorry I wasn't clearer on that.
I work in academics, so to me it is completely possible that your office hadn't figured out how to use a computer that way yet! Also, we actually have a red stamp in my office that says "Confidential", but I never have to use it.
java, my initial reaction was "WTF?" Marking a page "Confidential" multiple times shouldn't make it any more or less confidential. Actually, I'm not aware of any requirement to mark every page of a document "Confidential" even once to obtain treatment as confidential. Although I can see why someone would do it, for abundance of caution purposes.
