7 Id. (quoting Bowne of New York City, Inc. v. AmBase Corp., 161 F.R.D. 258, 264 (S.D.N.Y. 1995)). 8 As a general note, federal courts will apply state privilege law when sitting pursuant to diversity ...

This post explains an exception to the attorney-client privilege that is recognized in many jurisdictions to allow minority owners of LLCs and corporations to attempt to obtain the privileged ...

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has given its OK under the crime-fraud exception to attorney-client privilege to a trial court's in camera interview of a lawyer about advice provided ...

Attorney-client privilege is a fixture of any TV show that involves the law. But attorney-client privilege is also surprisingly complex. There are rules, exceptions to those rules, and exceptions to ...

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 ...

Many clients automatically assume attorney-client privilege applies even when the client’s spouses or children are present during legal consultations. In New York, however, a family member’s presence ...

A flat-bladed screwdriver can hew away strips of wood. But any woodworker knows a chisel would be the preferred tool for shaving and shaping the wood. Forcing a tool to perform another task not only ...

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 ...

A frequent topic in the media these days is the attorney-client privilege. This is probably a consequence of the volume of high-profile legal controversies now making headlines and the comings and ...

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 ...

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, ...