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 ...

In my previous column, “Appellate Advocates: Application of Attorney-Client Privilege to Government Communication and More,” NYLJ, Feb. 14, 2024, p. 3, col. 3, I discussed the applicability of ...

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 ...

“However, such use — regardless of how frequent — does not waive the [attorney-client] privilege. If she had called her attorney 49 times and sought legal advice, those conversations would be ...

In recent years, many different federal agencies have adopted policies that erode or undermine fundamental attorney-client privilege and ... and OFAC modified their respective waiver policies to ...

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 ...

A class action is a type of legal action where a representative individual or group of individuals can bring a claim on behalf of a larger group or class who share a common legal interest.

“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 ...

“Judge rules no attorney-client privilege for #FaniWillis ‘special prosecutor’ Nathan Wade’s former lawyer,” legal analyst Phil Holloway wrote. “This means he will have to testify ...