Unintentionally waiving privilege or engaging in communications that fall outside privilege from the start can put both the client's interests and the attorney-client relationship at risk. Many ...

For a communication to be protected by the attorney-client privilege, it needs to be confidential, it must be between the attorney and the client, and it must be for the purpose of seeking or ...

Lisa Zeiderman, Esq., CDFA, CFL, a Managing Partner at Miller Zeiderman, LLP, is a matrimonial and family law attorney based in New York. Small businesses often encounter issues of confidentiality ...

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 ...

Suppose your company suspects an employee broke the law, perhaps even using company property to do so. The company decides to conduct an internal investigation. If your company is sued because of the ...

Imagine that your company has just been sued by a competitor for patent infringement, deceptive advertising, unfair competition, or any number of other business torts. The news of the lawsuit has been ...

When Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers ordered Apple in April to fully comply with her 2021 App Store injunction, she also denied Apple’s motion to remove certain records, based on attorney–client ...

“This case is a reminder for both companies and lawyers…[that] initiating litigation without an objective basis and using litigation procedures as an unfair competition tool to interfere with a ...

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 ...

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more prevalent in the legal sector and corporate operations, its implications for attorney-client privilege should be a rising concern for board members. AI ...