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Confidentiality & Data Security Notice

TALG sends many emails, attachments, and other electronic messages that contain privileged, confidential, or sensitive information. This page explains how recipients should handle those messages, what risks come with electronic communication, and how artificial intelligence (AI) tools can affect confidentiality and legal privilege. It expands on the short notice at the bottom of our emails.

  1. Confidential and Privileged Communications

Our communications may be protected by the attorney-client privilege, the work-product doctrine, or other legal protections. They may also contain confidential business, personal, or financial information. They are meant only for the people they are addressed to.

If you received one of our messages by mistake:

  • Do not read, copy, print, share, or use any of it.
  • Tell the sender right away, by replying to the email our office at clientservices@talglaw.com
  • Permanently delete the message, its attachments, and any copies, including copies in backups, sync folders, or “deleted” folders where you can.
  1. No Tax Advice

Unless a message clearly says otherwise, our emails and attachments are not tax advice. Recipients should not rely on them to avoid tax penalties or to promote, market, or recommend any transaction. Please ask a qualified tax advisor about the tax effects of anything we discuss.

  1. AI Tools and Legal Privilege

Please do not use AI tools to review, summarize, analyze, translate, or otherwise process our communications unless you have talked to legal counsel first.

Many AI tools, especially free or consumer versions, can create real risks including:

  • Waiver of privilege. Sharing privileged material with a third-party AI provider could be argued to be disclosure to a third party. That could weaken or waive the attorney-client privilege or work-product protection.
  • Data retention and training. Some AI providers keep what you type in, log it, or use it to train their models. Your information could stay on outside systems long after you use the tool.
  • Human review. Some providers let their employees or contractors read user inputs and outputs for quality control or abuse monitoring.
  • Confidentiality and contract obligations. Uploading our communications may breach confidentiality agreements, protective orders, court rules, or data-protection laws that apply to you or your organization.
  • Data breaches. AI platforms are targets for cyberattacks, and they may store data in other countries or under different legal rules.
  • Accuracy. AI-generated summaries or analysis can be incomplete, inaccurate, or misleading. They are not a substitute for advice from your attorney.

If you are thinking about using AI or any other third-party tool with legal communications, talk to your TALG attorney first. 

  1. Limits on Data Security

TALG uses reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect the information we handle. Email and other electronic messages are still not completely secure. Once a message leaves our systems, we cannot control how it is sent, stored, or accessed.

  • We cannot guarantee security outside our controlled systems. That includes recipients’ email servers, personal devices, home networks, public Wi-Fi, cloud storage, and third-party apps.
  • Messages may be intercepted, corrupted, lost, delayed, or carry viruses or other harmful code. Recipients should use their own security protections.
  1. Forwarding, Storage, and Processing

To protect confidentiality and privilege, please:

  • Do not forward our messages to anyone outside the intended group without talking to your TALG attorney first. Sharing privileged communications with third parties can waive privilege.
  • Do not store our communications on unsecured or unauthorized platforms, such as personal email accounts, consumer cloud services, shared or public computers, or messaging apps without proper security.
  • Do not process our communications through unauthorized tools. That includes translation services, document converters, transcription tools, browser extensions, and AI platforms.
  • Keep our communications under your organization’s approved information-security and records policies.
  1. Detailed Handling Instructions

For intended recipients:

  • Read and keep our communications only on secure devices protected by a password or other authentication.
  • Share them within your organization only with people who need to know, and only after asking your TALG attorney whether internal sharing could affect privilege.
  • Keep and dispose of our communications under your records-retention policies and any legal holds.
  • Do not add new recipients to privileged email threads without checking with counsel.
  • Tell us right away if you think one of our communications has been accessed without authorization, forwarded by mistake, or exposed in a security incident.

Wire fraud warning:

  • TALG will never change wire or payment instructions by email alone. Before sending any funds, call your TALG contact at a phone number you already know to be correct. Do not use a number from the email itself.
  1. Contact Us

If you have questions about this notice or want to arrange a secure way to communicate, contact your TALG attorney or one of our offices.

This notice may be updated from time to time. Last updated: October 4, 2026.