A decision issued on March 6 by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia serves as a stark reminder that internal investigations must be carefully structured and executed to garner the ...

Attorney-client privilege is formidable and taken very seriously in California. The privilege is not, however, absolute.

The past year has proven challenging for many law school clinics and student-based organizations. They have experienced the political and legal retaliation that sometimes comes when representing ...

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 ...

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 ...

Minnesota business attorneys, heads up: documents provided to clients that blur the distinction between legal and business advice, while previously protected disclosure, may become a powerful weapon ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the 1993 film The Firm, attorney Mitchell McDeere (played by Tom Cruise) must confront Joey Morolto (played by Paul Sorvino), the head of the Morolto crime family and a top client of Bendini, ...

CHICAGO - For a quarter of a century, defense lawyers Dale Coventry and Jamie Kunz were bound by the rules of law to hold onto a secret that now could mean freedom for a man serving a life sentence ...