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On April 29, 2025, United States District Judge John H. Chun of the Western District of Washington issued an order denying defendant Amazon’s request to claw back privileged documents it argued had inadvertently produced in...more
The attorney-client privilege is so fragile that even disclosing protected communications to family members normally waives it. An Arizona appellate court recently took a forgiving view, but a concurring judge sounded the...more
Florida’s Sixth District Court of Appeal (6th DCA), which considers appeals from trial courts in an area running from Orange County down to Collier County, recently confirmed that discovery privileges apply to communications...more
On March 11, the Criminal Chamber of the French Supreme Court (Cour de cassation) handed down four rulings that drastically narrow the scope of French legal privilege. Under French law, when a dawn raid is carried out in a...more
A recent case out of Colorado highlights the continued attack on the attorney-client privilege during the claim adjustment process. In In re: Hill Hotel Owner, LLC v. Hanover Insurance Company, 557 P.3d 798 (Colo. Oct. 29,...more
On Feb. 7, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in In re Two Grand Jury Subpoenas Dated Sept. 13, 2023 affirmed the Southern District of New York’s order compelling a partner at a law firm and the firm to...more
What should you do if you receive an IRS audit notification letter? Why should you consider engaging an experienced IRS audit and tax attorney who represents U.S. taxpayers facing an IRS audit or any other federal or state...more
It is commonplace for attorneys and compliance officers (particularly those who are also attorneys) to receive communications from clients that have more than one purpose. Take, for example, a doctor who calls a friend and...more
A three-way circuit split has long plagued the realm of attorney-client privilege on how to treat communications that implicate both legal and non-legal concerns (known as “dual-purpose communications”). Namely, if a lawyer...more
Recently the Court of Appeals has addressed a director’s inspection rights, and shareholder inspection rights and the associated opportunity to recover attorney fees and other expenses incurred in securing the inspection of...more
In a surprising move, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) dismissed a dispute involving the proper test to apply when determining whether an unnamed law firm’s mixed bag of communications involving both legal...more
Today, the United States Supreme Court issued a "non-decision" in In re Grand Jury. The case involved a conflict among federal circuit courts of appeal over which legal test should be applied to evaluate whether so-called...more
...A communication must be made for the purpose of legal advice to be protected from disclosure by the attorney-client privilege. If legal advice is not the purpose of the communication, the attorney-client privilege does not...more
Proskauer recently submitted an amicus brief on behalf of The Buckeye Institute, an independent research and educational institution, in connection with the U.S. Supreme Court case of In Re Grand Jury. On appeal from the U.S....more
With the ever-increasingly complex regulatory environment in the United States, ensuring corporate compliance is neither inexpensive nor easy. Given these difficulties, when the need to conduct an internal investigation...more
This Littler Lightbulb highlights some recent labor and employment law developments at the U.S. Supreme Court and federal courts of appeal. At the Supreme Court. On October 3, the Justices agreed to hear In re Grand...more
On October 3, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court granted review in a federal grand jury proceeding that may result in the Court expanding the scope of the attorney-client privilege for dual-purpose business communications....more
In a recent decision, the Second District Court of Appeal (“Second DCA”) reiterated what is, and is not, covered by the attorney-client privilege. This decision provides additional guidance to school boards—and other public...more
Accordingly, we hold that the voluntary disclosure of a privileged attorney-client communication constitutes a waiver of the privilege as to all other communications concerning the same subject matter when the trial court...more
Kathryn Isted In Harbor Healthcare System, L.P. v. United States, 5 F.4th 593 (5th Cir. 2021), the court of appeals ruled that the district court abused its discretion in refusing to exercise its equitable jurisdiction over a...more
To foster open and honest communications with counsel, it is critically important that those communications are protected from disclosure by the attorney-client privilege. But, not every communication with counsel is...more
When are communications with counsel that are for both legal advice and business purposes protected by the attorney-client privilege? From least to most stringent, courts have required that a communication be “because of”...more
In Belliveau v. Barco, Inc., a licensor of intellectual property sued the owner of the licensee for breach of fiduciary duty related to the sublicensing to a third party. No. 19-50717, 2021 U.S. App. LEXIS 2489 (5th Cir....more
The attorney-client privilege is one of the bedrocks of the legal profession. It permits communications between a client and an attorney to remain privileged. The U.S. Supreme Court has stated that by assuring...more
The Court of Appeals of North Carolina's decision in Crosmun v. The Trustees of Fayetteville Technical Community College, ___ N.C. App. ___, 832 S.E.2d 223 (2019) provides much needed guidance to North Carolina courts on how...more