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Confidential Communications Privilege Waivers Privileged Communication

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Understanding Attorney-Client Privilege: What Clients Need to Know

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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

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Two Important Courts in Two Days Highlight the Shrinking Risk of Subject Matter Waivers: Part I

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All lawyers worry that waiving privilege protection for some communications might trigger a damaging subject matter waiver requiring disclosure of related communications. Such a subject matter waiver risk normally does not...more

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"At Issue" Waivers Implicate Subtle Distinctions

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The frighteningly unpredictable "at issue" waiver doctrine can strip away attorney-client privilege protection when the client seeks some legal advantage by putting "at issue" its knowledge, ignorance, conduct, etc. This type...more

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Delaware Court Provides Transactional and Practical Guidance: Part I

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Corporate stock and asset sale transactions necessarily implicate ownership of: (1) ordinary day-to-day privileged communications about environmental matters, labor matters, etc., and (2) privileged communications about the...more

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Really? I Shouldn’t Bring My BFF to My Lawyer’s Office?

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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

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