Accessing company officer's commingled personal Gmail?

Question

A key company officer recently passed away. They had fully commingled their personal and corporate correspondence in their personal Gmail.Has anyone had experience/success interacting directly with Google on similar issues to recover past/ongoing correspondence and records?To head off the early questions:1. Yes, we worked hard to prevent this situation, but we're in it now.2. Yes, we have extensive legal support/advice.

relaunched · Accepted Answer

This is a live and learn moment. There might be a legal / contractual reason you are entitled to them, but you'd have to sue the legal current legal owner to get them, if they won't otherwise turn them over. The terms might be codified in some sort of employee agreement / vesting agreement.For example, you could demand the emails, as a part of "returning company property." If they don't, you might be able to pursue legal action, that would entitle you to discovery.

throwaway019254 · Answer

You know who is the owner of these emails right now. Have you tried to offer some money and buy the emails from them?And if they refused, maybe you didn't offer enough?

stop50 · Answer

You could ask the people who inherit what the person owned. They have an easier legal reason to access the gmail account. if there is no ther way to contact the senders/reciepients of the emails, i can only think of the legal way.