Challenges and delays during the discovery process are a frustrating part of civil litigation. One cause for such delay is the attorney-client privilege arising from internal investigation materials.

From U.S. v. Heppner, handed down today by Judge Jed Rakoff (S.D.N.Y.): ...

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 ...

In 2006, a landmark decision by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York resulted in a dramatic change in the Department of Justice's policies and practice in the prosecution 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 ...

Q: We are in a civil case with others, suing a person who engaged in fraudulent misconduct. We share the same attorney who is trying to establish that the attorney-client privilege between this guy ...

An amendment to the Attorney-Act, introducing attorney-client privilege (ACP) between lawyers and clients, passed the National Assembly plenary session on the 29th. The revised bill stipulates that ...

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 ...

Interesting issues relating to the Pennsylvania attorney-client privilege arise in the context of an email string or email chain involving corporate employees, where some, but not all, communications ...