Attorney-client privilege is formidable and taken very seriously in California. The privilege is not, however, absolute.
In the context of third-party liability claims, a familiar arrangement arises when an insurer retains defense counsel for its insured: the ...
Jurisdictions confronted with this common situation have offered some helpful, although inconclusive, guidance, and the below recent cases can shed light on how privilege is applied in real-world ...
The ruling paves the way for The Renco Group Inc. to receive documents for a criminal investigation it believes will prove a ...
Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott cut off the inspector general’s access to some city Law Department records, citing ...
A founder of a nonprofit organization who is facing federal wire fraud, theft and tax evasion charges has asked a judge to suppress evidence he claims was improperly disclosed to prosecutors in ...
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Attorneys generally bill time in tenths of an hour, dutifully keeping for clients a contemporaneous record of everything from conversations, to areas of law researched, to summaries and outcomes of ...
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 ...
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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