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 ...

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 ...

Camilo Artiga-Purcell flags up some of the cybersecurity, data protection and privilege risks associated with client-intake ...

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit recently issued a significant decision in In re FirstEnergy Corporation,[1] granting a writ of mandamus and vacating a district court order that had ...

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 ...

OpenAI Inc.'s confidential messages with attorneys about deleting pirated data may be protected by attorney-client privilege, ...

Bloomberg: Eric Chaffee, professor and the Peter M. Gerhart Distinguished Research Scholar at the School of Law, said attorney-client privilege is vital to corporate investigations, making lawyers ...

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 ...

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Attorneys generally bill time in tenths of an hour, dutifully keeping for clients a contemporaneous record of everything from conversations, to areas of law researched, to summaries and outcomes of ...

The co-founder of Springdale-based nonprofit 2nd Milk is calling for a federal judge to dismiss a second indictment in an ...