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Interesting story with a lesson to remember. But can anyone comment on how did his or investor's attorney find that email? Is it common practice to give attorneys full access to all your company's email accounts and then have them search through for any land mines as part of due diligence? Seems a little extreme and very labor intensive. And who pays for it?

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In the comments he wrote:

Our lawyer was concerned about the possibility of prior claims against technology and the company. As we were relatively young he asked for a copy of correspondence that might fall into that category. So it wasn’t that he went through every email in our in our inbox. We prescreened and the email from Bill was one we included in the package which we forwarded.

Thanks. I should have scrolled down to the comments before posting.

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