All Things Investigations: Episode 37 – Privileges in Document Production with Mike Huneke
Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 395: Listen and Learn -- Evidence: Special Privileges
Why Your Data is Key to Reducing Risk and Increasing Efficiency During Investigations and Litigation
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 210: Listen and Learn -- Evidence: Special Privileges
What Lawyers Need to Know About Cybersecurity | Dennis Van Metre | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
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
On July 25, 2025, Superior Court Business Litigation Session Judge Debra A. Squires-Lee issued a significant decision regarding the attorney-client privilege and clarifying the contours of the work product doctrine in...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: In its seminal decision, Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia, the Supreme Court held that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity is tantamount to discrimination on the basis of...more
Courts take differing positions on the "client's" identity in the government setting. Among other things, such differing positions might affect the waiver implications of one government agency disclosing its privileged...more
Under some arrangements, major shareholders appoint directors to companies those shareholders partially own. Does such a company waive its privilege by disclosing its privileged documents to a designating shareholder's...more
Understandably based on fairness notions, the subject matter waiver doctrine prevents litigants from explicitly or impliedly using privileged communications as a "sword" while simultaneously asserting the privilege as a...more
A party may waive privilege not just by making positive assertions about its privileged communications but also negative assertions (ie what was not said in privileged communications). For there to be a waiver, the party has...more
As if waiving privilege protection (either intentionally or inadvertently) was not frightening enough, the sinister subject matter waiver doctrine might force disclosure of additional privileged documents on the same topic....more
Ruling on a motion seeking the return of inadvertently produced privilege materials, Judge Kaplan elaborated on the meaning of “inadvertent” in the context of Massachusetts Rule of Civil Procedure 26(b)(5) and so-called...more