Does the data include legal advice, litigation material, or trade secrets (yours or other companies')?
Legal channels, outside counsel email and litigation folders are excluded; trade secrets the company wants to keep are excluded or the buyer's use is restricted contractually.
Dated 6 Oct 2026Source checked 6 Oct 2026Quote found on its page again 16 Oct 2026Basis: inference
In the source's own words
“Exclude high-risk data entirely rather than relying on de-identification. Consider privileged material, HR and personnel files, payroll and tax records, health and benefits information, union-related communications, customer and partner confidential information, licensed data, and data from regulated systems.”
Where it was read
Frankfurt Kurnit (Goldberg), Legal 500, checked 6 Oct 2026
Also read from the same source
- Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz (Daniel M. Goldberg) and companies selling data: legal or policy, company records (email, chat, code, HR)
- Does any of the data belong to or describe your customers, and do your customer contracts and data processing agreements allow using it for anything other than serving them?
- Does the data contain other companies' confidential information, such as partner documents, pricing, roadmaps or anything shared under an NDA?
- Is any of it data or content you licensed from someone else, such as purchased contact lists, research reports, stock media, fonts or design kits?
- Do the records include staff discussing pay, working conditions or union matters, or is any workforce covered by a collective bargaining agreement?
- Has any sample of the data already been shown to a buyer or broker before this rights review?
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