Questions of law and fact continue to evolved regarding post-merger claims of privilege between buyer and seller.  A May 29, 2019...

According to various UK lawyers, the privilege issues inn SFO v. ENRC are critical for companies and lawyers involved in allegations of...

Todd Presnell blogs on privilege, and is always cogent. This morning (May 7, 2018), he provided a cogent update (with links) to orders on...

Can discovery be taken about a sale price discount for a company  when the discount purportedly is to account for litigation risk? Yes,...

The ubiquity of email and 24/7 work are creating new privilege issues. Some are addressed  an interesting June 9, 2017 JD Supra article...

Claims for legal advice privilege are becoming more difficult and narrower in the EU, according to a February 10, 2017 article published...

A new (June 9, 2016) opinion from the New York Court of Appeals significantly limits claims to a common interest privilege in connection...

Are categorical privilege logs the future in New York, and if so, how will that work? Gibson Dunn lawyers provide some views and a brief...

How far does privilege go when lawyers apparently have knowledge of a Ponzi scheme? Perhaps not far enough to block a duty to speak,...

The idea is to me hard to grasp, but the Canadian tobacco trial today focused much time on the tobacco companies claiming "parliamentary...

The 9th Circuit recently joined the group of federal circuit courts rejecting selective waiver of privilege. The opinion is analyzed in...

Here’s a summary of an interesting Illinois opinion in Zangara v. Advocate Christ Medical Center . Nos. 1–09–1911, 1–09–1914 (June 10,...

For better or worse, opinions from lawyers are now tightly woven into management of government agencies and private businesses. Indeed,...

The Akzo Nobel ruling is out from the European Court of Justice, and rejects the attorney-client privilege claim for activities of inside...

Here is an interesting NLJ article on the state secrets privilege from a law professor and dean with an impressive background in both...

This September 23 NYT article by Charlie Savage describes Obama administration plans to deploy rules that limit the use of the state...