357, 359 (D. Mass. 1950). The issue thus arises: when the attorney-client communication mixes legal and non-legal concerns, does the privilege still apply? Before addressing New York law ...

One of the major challenges facing the legal profession today is how to adapt and apply the concept of attorney-client privilege (or professional secrecy) in an increasingly globalised world. Rules on ...

United Shoe Machinery, Judge Charles Wyzanski of the District of Massachusetts articulated the commonly used standard for defining the attorney-client privilege. “The privilege applies only if ...

J.M. Huber Corp., 274 F.R.D. 63, 93 (W.D.N.Y. 2011) (where privilege was found to have been waived through excessive dissemination). 19 Id. at *2 (“Unlike the attorney-client privilege, the work ...

A Trade Secret is any information, not generally known or easily ascertainable, by which an enterprise develops an economic advantage over competitors or customers. In order to maintain trade ...

Okanogan County doesn’t have to show the public the checklist it uses to determine if water can legally supply a new house in the Methow Valley, because that list is protected by attorney-client ...

“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 ...

After an internal IT investigation and a round of polygraph examinations and affidavits by six of seven City Council members, the City of Prescott this week termed the investigation into an early-2024 ...

The attorney-client privilege serves as a legitimate device to shield certain information from the opponent in litigation. The power of the privilege creates a temptation to use it excessively. The ...