The attorney-client privilege is a critical component in the legal process but its protection is constantly being challenged in complicated corporate investigations. There are measures that attorneys ...

If a lawyer is a defendant to a lawsuit and their defense primarily rests on privileged information, what the lawyer is permitted to disclose often depends on what the lawyer is accused of and by whom ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Attorney-client privilege. Most people have heard of it, and most have a general idea it means. But what, exactly, is attorney-client privilege? What's its purpose? What does it cover? When does it ...

Samantha Weissbluth, senior counsel, and Simon Johnson, associate, Foley & Lardner LLP, Chicago The fiduciary exception to attorney-client privilege has long complicated attorneys’ lives. And that’s ...

On March 11, the Criminal Chamber of the French Supreme Court (Cour de cassation) handed down four rulings that drastically narrow the scope of French legal privilege. Under French law, when a dawn ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Robert W. Wood is a tax lawyer focusing on taxes and litigation. Taxes are complex, and the line between creative tax planning and ...

Donald Trump's former personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani is clashing with prosecutors over how to determine whether materials seized from his home and offices last month are covered by "attorney-client ...

The policy behind the attorney-client privilege is to promote candid and open communication by clients to their attorneys without fear of disclosure. The attorney-client privilege only applies if the ...