KKR-Kirkland Email Ruling Shows Legal Privilege Is No Guarantee

Opinion: A judge ordering a private equity firm to share emails from its lawyers with the US government is unsurprising ...
Law

The Testamentary Exception Does Not Permit a Decedent to Impliedly Waive a Survivor’s Attorney-Client Privilege

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit recently held that the testamentary exception to the attorney-client privilege does “not grant the deceased client the power to waive a privilege held ...
IPWatchdog

A Case Study on the ‘Crime-Fraud’ Exception to Attorney-Client Privilege

“This case is a reminder for both companies and lawyers…[that] initiating litigation without an objective basis and using litigation procedures as an unfair competition tool to interfere with a ...
JD Supra

Split McAleer Ruling Leaves Attorney-Client Privilege Fiduciary Exception In Limbo

In a recent Pennsylvania Supreme Court case, In re: Estate of William K. McAleer, the state high court addressed the issue of whether Pennsylvania law recognizes the fiduciary exception to ...
JournalofAccountancy

Proposal would clarify exception to client confidentiality rule

A newly proposed AICPA ethics rule would clarify that certain reviews of a tax practice are included in the exceptions to the AICPA Professional Standards prohibition on disclosing confidential client ...
Law

Attorney-Client Conspiracy Exception: Immunity

In Heffernan v. Hunter, the court held that because the defendants (appellees) acted within the attorney-client relationship they cannot be considered conspirators. This author's last column on ...
JD Supra

The Fiduciary Exception to the Attorney-Client Privilege: Whose Privilege is it in Litigation?

The attorney-client privilege is a cornerstone of the legal practice. The privilege protects the confidentiality of communications between a client and an attorney from disclosure to a third party ...