Baylor email error is opportunity to teach law students about 4.4

As has been noted in lots of places, Baylor's law school sent its recent admittees an email with a spreadsheet attachment that lists the grades, LSAT's, race, and other info of all the admittees. Yikes. The school quickly sent out a second email asking the admittees to delete the first email and noting that:

Due to the sensitive nature of the information that was contained in the attachment, we ask you to treat the document as confidential, just as you would as a lawyer, and delete the information.

Comments

[mt45]

There's something a little off-putting about the school trying to characterize their incompetence as a learning opportunity.

I think the real lesson here is, ethics isn't just about whether one willfully breaks the rules or not. Negligent actions can be just as damaging, and it doesn't really matter to the victims of your actions whether you were willful, reckless, or negligent. If you make a negligent oopsie with client data, you made an ethics mistake.

[John Steele]

mt45, thanks.

i could have been more precise: i meant that it's an opportunity for PR profs around the country to use the event to teach 4.4.

[mt45]

John Steele-

I see what you were saying, I was was criticizing Baylor's response

[John Steele]

mt45, thanks!