For decades, courts have applied these protections to successive waves of new technology and generally concluded that the ...

Opinion: A judge ordering a private equity firm to share emails from its lawyers with the US government is unsurprising ...

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 ...

An examination of the applicability of the attorney-client privilege and work product doctrine to communications, documents, and other information in internal corporate investigations, and common ...

Clients often want a trusted family member by their side when they consult with attorneys. While understandable, doing so can carry serious risks. Under New York law, the general rule is the presence ...

Attorney-client confidentiality is one of the oldest pillars of American justice. Americans not only have a right to talk with a lawyer, but also to talk privately with the lawyer. After all, what ...

From U.S. v. Heppner, handed down today by Judge Jed Rakoff (S.D.N.Y.): At a pretrial conference in this matter held on February 10, 2026, the Court … granted from the bench the Government's motion ...

With its origins in the 16th century, the attorney-client privilege is one of the oldest doctrines in our common law tradition. Even so, new issues do arise, like in the North Carolina Business Court ...

September 19, 2025 - Everyone knows the baseline rule: an attorney cannot, and should not, coach a witness on the record during a deposition or influence the witness to change testimony. A deposition ...

The conversations David Hoovler had with Andre Thurston in 2008 about the Megan McDonald murder are protected by attorney-client privilege, one of the bedrock principles of our legal system. In 2008, ...

On Feb. 7, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in In re Two Grand Jury Subpoenas Dated Sept. 13, 2023 [1] affirmed the Southern District of New York’s order compelling a partner at ...

Many lawyers across Missouri take exception to how the Sunshine Law's first exception of attorney-client privilege is interpreted. Some say the exception in the state statute granting the public the ...