The attorney-client privilege protects (1) clients’ communications of facts to lawyers, (2) clients’ requests for legal advice from lawyers, (3) lawyers’ request for facts from clients and (4) lawyers ...

Camilo Artiga-Purcell flags up some of the cybersecurity, data protection and privilege risks associated with client-intake ...

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 ...

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit recently issued a significant decision in In re FirstEnergy Corporation,[1] granting a writ of mandamus and vacating a district court order that had ...

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 ...

Big tech's lawyers are doing an great deal of work to protect companies like Apple, Google, and Amazon, and there's a new trend of turning attorney-client privilege into a sketchy legal strategy.

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 ...

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The Delhi High Court ruled that courts cannot direct advocates to disclose how they obtained client documents, citing Section ...