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In reply to the discussion: Hillary's Email: How to deal with deleting selected items in a large amount of email. [View all]Ms. Toad
(34,076 posts)than sorting the collection after it has accumulated. No one is suggesting that she may not have personal phone e-mails or phone calls, etc. As an attorney she knows very well how to avoid co-mingling. It is an ethical obligation imposed on all attorneys with respect to client money - you maintain a client separate account (generally at an institution of your own choosing) from your firm's account. When you receive money from clients, if it is for services already rendered, you may put it in you firm account. If it is for services not yet rendered, you must put it in the separate account. Same principle. Single decision at the outset. And the same consequences if you dump all money into the single account, co-minging it: Deep doo-doo.
And if you screw up and co-mingle things, you'd preserve everything until it is all sorted out. That is my biggest concern about all fo this. It is one thing to o an electronic sort and hand over the results of the sort - and have the ability to search again if something business related is missing. It is quite another to destroy it, so you have no ability to undo mistakes in sorting.