This is especially significant in tax matters ... litigation privilege). The European Union as an entity recognizes that communications between attorneys and their clients can be subject to ...

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 ...

The test adopted is that confidential communications between attorney and client that references or encompasses non-legal matters may still be protected by the privilege so long as “the ...

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 ...

With its origins in the 16th century, the attorney-client privilege ... the court treated the privilege as having been waived for all the communications on the subject matter of the selectively ...

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 ...

“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 ...

“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 ...