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Keeping privileged email inside your firm

Privileged communication is the most sensitive data a firm holds. Most of it lives in a cloud mailbox the firm doesn't operate.

6 min read

Attorney-client communication carries privilege precisely because it's confidential — yet the typical firm routes all of it through a cloud mailbox provider it doesn't control, mixed with everything else and subject to the provider's access and retention.

EdgeMail is a self-hosted mail system: the firm's own mailboxes and domains, with bodies and attachments stored in firm-controlled storage. Messages can be marked attorney-client or work-product, tied to matters, and held under legal hold.

When discovery comes, full-text and semantic search plus thread reconstruction make production a defined task rather than a scramble — and the data never left your perimeter to begin with.

See how this works in EdgeLex.