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 ...
Opinion: Companies that want to deploy artificial intelligence for legal purposes must understand the risks that poses and ...
Attorney-client privilege in corporate investigations is difficult to create and very fragile. So fragile, in fact, that companies lose 50 percent of the cases brought by parties seeking to breach the ...
If a lawyer is a defendant to a lawsuit and their defense primarily rests on privileged information, what the lawyer is permitted to disclose often depends on what the lawyer is accused of and by whom ...
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, ...
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 ...
On Feb. 10, 2026, Judge Jed S. Rakoff of the Southern District of New York delivered a ruling from the bench in United States v. Heppner that dismantled a central pillar of the defendant’s legal ...