What's the Tea in L&E? Can You Share An Employee's Medical Info?
Attorney-client privilege is one of the most important protections in the legal system. Its powerful legal protection allows clients to speak freely and candidly with their attorneys without fear that their communications...more
When a client seeks legal advice from a lawyer, the confidential communications between them, which are made for the sole or dominant purpose of seeking and receiving legal advice, are protected by legal professional...more
What’s the Tea in L&E is a video series focused on the latest trends and updates in labor and employment law. In this short video, Woods Rogers L&E attorneys Leah Stiegler and Emily Kendall Chowhan discuss when and how it is...more
As anyone faced with discovery requests knows, one of the most important parts of producing documents is determining what documents are subject to attorney-client privilege or work product doctrine and must therefore be...more
The New York Court of Appeals recently clarified and reinforced the attorney-client privilege, explaining that certain internal training materials reflecting legal analysis of statutory, regulatory, and decisional law...more
A BP executive's husband pleaded guilty to securities fraud for buying and selling stock of BP's merger target. He knew of the upcoming transaction because he and his wife worked from home approximately 20 feet from each...more
As previously reported in this blog, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission is attempting to force the international law firm of Covington & Burling, LLP to identify hundreds of its publicly traded clients. ...more
Adversaries often challenge each other’s privilege calls in the thick of litigation, and sometimes those challenges are elevated to a court’s in camera review. In Governo Law Firm LLC v. CMBG3 Law LLC, et al., Judge Salinger,...more
A recent High Court appeal decision in Ahuja Investments Limited v (1) Victorygame Limited and (2) Surjit Singh Pandher has permitted a creative, yet deceptive, litigation strategy by a claimant seeking to withhold...more
On April 1, the California Supreme Court ruled in Smith v. LoanMe Inc. that California Penal Code Section 632.7 prohibits both parties to a communication and nonparties, such as an individual who covertly intercepts and...more
The California Supreme Court overturned the California Court of Appeals to hold that a party to a phone call can violate California Penal Code section 632.7 by recording the conversation without the consent of the other...more
The Pagliara divorce has given us much to talk about. In “Sex, Lies, (Drugs) and Videotape … and Malicious Prosecution”, we discussed the dismissal of Husband’s malicious prosecution claims against Wife’s former divorce...more
Join Ulmer attorney Alvin Mathews for a complimentary webinar as he discusses how to meet professional obligations in the midst of and in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. Alvin will review competence, diligence and...more
The security and confidentiality of a company’s data is paramount. As businesses grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic and the need for employees to work remotely, it is important to remain focused on ensuring the security and...more
Confidentiality is fundamental to the client-lawyer relationship. Are you talking to your lawyer within earshot of a family member or a third person? Are you talking to your lawyer within earshot of a listening device?...more
Corporate Nondisclosure Agreement, Confidential Disclosure Agreement, Confidentiality Agreement, NDA, CDA and so on. Regardless of the title, companies sign agreements promising to be quiet on a regular basis. But are all...more
Rojas v. HSBC Card Services Inc., 228 Cal. Rptr. 3d 640 (2018)- Summary: Installing recording device and recording calls on company phones renders actions intentional under California Invasion of Privacy Act. ...more
In most states, it is fairly clear that attorney-client privilege does not apply to communications between an employee and the employee's personal lawyer if the communications are made using the employer's email system and if...more
The Oregon Supreme Court holds that law firms can avail themselves of attorney-client privilege for in-house communications to the same extent as all other entities with in-house counsel. This is so even if the party...more