In response, Zydex alleged that ALM’s claims were barred by the defense of equitable estoppel. Equitable estoppel requires a ...

Attentiveness and care are required to make sure that a client or attorney does not inadvertently waive a protection that was meant to be protected. By being mindful of these issues, lawyers and ...

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In the specialized arena of the Federal Circuit, where patent cases now predominate, combatants over a core question of attorney-client privilege have swiftly moved into position for a rare argument ...

BOSTON — Lawyers across the country are assessing the ramifications of a federal judge’s ruling that a white-collar criminal defendant waived the attorney-client privilege to — and lacked work-product ...

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Gideon Rubin is news writer for Raw Story, based in Northern California. He is a graduate of San Francisco State University, where he majored in history. He started out covering sports in the Bay Area ...

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, ...