When it comes to the attorney-client privilege, confidentiality matters. The privilege ordinarily is lost when otherwise confidential attorney-client communications are exposed to third parties, and ...

The article explains that attorney-client privilege is designed to encourage open communication with lawyers, but courts are ...

Justin J. Gunnell and Krista Staropoli of Sher Tremonte LLP discuss restrictive and flexible approaches to whether attorney-client and spousal privileges are waived when a spouse is present during ...

January 5, 2023 - A communication must be made for the purpose of legal advice to be protected from disclosure by the attorney-client privilege. If legal advice is not the purpose of the communication ...

Law firms hold some of the most sensitive information in any industry. M&A deal terms before they are public, litigation strategy, privileged communications between attorneys and clients, and the ...

Challenges and delays during the discovery process are a frustrating part of civil litigation. One cause for such delay is the attorney-client privilege arising from internal investigation materials.

(Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department is opposing a request by former President Donald Trump to appoint a “special master” to determine whether documents seized by federal agents from his Mar-a-Lago ...

The Washington State Attorney General’s Office advised its client, the Secretary of State’s Office, to release ...

Securely communicating information over the internet is critical if you're working in the legal profession. As more large-scale cyberattacks happen to institutions across the globe, the need for ...

Curious complications come up when the attorney-client privilege is breached. When Donald Trump was arraigned in Florida on federal charges, a condition of the former president’s bail was that he not ...

A New York federal court just issued the first ruling to tackle head-on whether conversations with a public AI chatbot can be protected by attorney–client privilege or the work product doctrine. The ...

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