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Crime-Fraud Exception Destroys Privilege for Communications Between Former CEO of Public Company and His Outside Lawyer

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On February 7, 2025, the Second Circuit ruled that the crime-fraud exception would prevent theĀ  former CEO of a public company from invoking attorney-client privilege to prevent an outside lawyer and his law firm from...more

Winstead PC

SEC Files Subpoena Enforcement Action Against Covington & Burling, Seeking Names of Clients Impacted by Chinese State-Sponsored...

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On January 10, 2023, the SEC filed a subpoena enforcement action against Covington, a large law firm that was victimized by the so-called Hafnium cyberattack by Chinese state actors. Hafnium reportedly was engaged in...more

UB Greensfelder LLP

Contrary To What FINRA Believes, Rule 8210 Is Not A Search Warrant

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I have been waiting for a while to write about this issue, since it arose in an Enforcement case I handled for a client, and I wanted the matter to run its full course at FINRA before I started throwing stones. Sadly, there...more

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