Where to Start: Attorney-client Privilege
The attorney-client privilege is one of the oldest and most valued rights. It protects a lawyer from being pressured to testify against his client. The object of this privilege is …
Selection and Compilation by Counsel of Discoverable Documents Should Be Covered Under the Doctrine of the Work Product
Naturally, large-scale, industrial construction litigation requires high quantities of documents exchanged through discovery, which must be marshaled, checked and collected by counsel in some manner. Adverse parties also demand access …
In Internal Investigations Defending Attorney-client Privilege and Work Product Doctrine
It faces mounting challenges to ensure that internal inquiries remain covered by the right. State regulators like the United States In investigating the boundaries of privileged information, the Department of …
What You Should Know: The Attorney-client Privilege
The attorney-client privilege and the power of the client to ask pointed and explicit questions for the purpose of receiving legal advice are one of the most important assets of …
Working From Home and Attorney-client Privilege
Corporate lawyers and their clients share sensitive correspondence on a regular basis. These exchanges contain assumptions on what is and what will remain a protected by attorney-client privilage. For in-house …
Confidentiality of Client: The Buried Bodies Case
Four college-age friends set out on a camping trip to New York’s Adirondack Mountains in the summer of 1973. What happened over the next few hours led to a case …
Tips For Maintaining Confidential Client-attorney Correspondence
You can unintentionally ‘waive’ the right and reveal the confidential communications unless you are careful to protect against disclosure—and open the door to having to disclose more related communications. You …
Advices For Communication According To Attorney-client Privilege Requirements
The attorney-customer right is one such area that is very important to consider, but that is barely taught in business schools or in-house training seminars. True, you do not need …
What Is The ‘privilege Attorney-client’?
Recent news events have drawn attention to the importance of attorney-client privilege. A federal magistrate judge granted a search warrant on April 9 allowing the FBI to raid attorney Michael …
Disclosure Of Secret Under Attorney-client Privilege
A principle of fundamental justice is attorney-client privilege. It is a substantive right central to the proper functioning of the legal system, more than just a rule of evidence, that …