Law

Attorney-Client Privilege Is Not Family Friendly

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 ...
JD Supra

Arizona Supreme Court Requires Objective Necessity to Extend Attorney-Client Privilege to Third-Party Family Members

In Gelvin v. Parker, the Arizona Supreme Court held that the attorney-client privilege does not automatically extend to a ...
JD Supra

Protecting Attorney-Client Privilege and Attorney Work-Product During Internal Investigations

Suppose your company suspects an employee broke the law, perhaps even using company property to do so. The company decides to conduct an internal investigation. If your company is sued because of the ...
Law

Attorney-Client Privilege Should Protect Private Consultations With Counsel About Matters Ultimately to Be Made Public

Attorney-client communications must be confidential, and be kept confidential, in order to be privileged and protected from compelled disclosure. When clients communicate with their lawyers, the ...
Forbes

Hiring Counsel: Understanding Third-Party Communications And Attorney-Client Privilege

Lisa Zeiderman, Esq., CDFA, CFL, a Managing Partner at Miller Zeiderman, LLP, is a matrimonial and family law attorney based in New York. Small businesses often encounter issues of confidentiality ...
Reuters

Fortify attorney-client privilege over dual-purpose communications before Supreme Court decides In re Grand Jury

January 5, 2023 - A communication must be made for the purpose of legal advice to be protected from disclosure by the attorney-client privilege. If legal advice is not the purpose of the communication ...
SCOTUSblog

Court will mull scope of attorney-client privilege when lawyers give both legal and nonlegal advice

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. A lawyer’s legal advice is privileged. A court cannot order the lawyer or the client to disclose it. But a lawyer’s nonlegal ...
IPWatchdog

A Case Study on the ‘Crime-Fraud’ Exception to Attorney-Client Privilege

“This case is a reminder for both companies and lawyers…[that] initiating litigation without an objective basis and using litigation procedures as an unfair competition tool to interfere with a ...
9to5Mac

Tech groups back Apple in fight over attorney–client privilege limits in Epic Games case

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 ...
Reuters

Deposition breaks and attorney-client communications: Navigating the gray areas

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 ...
Nasdaq

The Board’s Role in Understanding AI’s Impact on Attorney-Client Privilege

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 ...
The New York Times

Read Trump Lawyers’ Filing on Mar-a-Lago Raid and Attorney-Client Privilege in Documents Case

A PDF version of this document with embedded text is available at the link below: Case 9:23-cr-80101-AMC Document 566 Entered on FLSD Docket 05/21/2024 Page 1 of 28 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT ...