A recent decision from the SDNY, United States v. Heppner, has generated outsized commentary suggesting that the use of ...

In 2006, a landmark decision by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York resulted in a dramatic change in the Department of Justice's policies and practice in the prosecution of ...

BOSTON — Lawyers across the country are assessing the ramifications of a federal judge’s ruling that a white-collar criminal defendant waived the attorney-client privilege to — and lacked work-product ...

Law firms and legal departments are increasingly using GenAI to efficiently draft documents, perform legal research, and manage discovery. However, if counsel’s GenAI usage reveals a client’s ...

Q: We are in a civil case with others, suing a person who engaged in fraudulent misconduct. We share the same attorney who is trying to establish that the attorney-client privilege between this guy ...

Many lawyers across Missouri take exception to how the Sunshine Law's first exception of attorney-client privilege is interpreted. Some say the exception in the state statute granting the public the ...

From U.S. v. Heppner, handed down today by Judge Jed Rakoff (S.D.N.Y.): At a pretrial conference in this matter held on February 10, 2026, the Court … granted from the bench the Government's motion ...

"What matters for attorney-client privilege is not what a company does with its legal advice, but simply whether a company seeks legal advice,” the appellate court stated.

September 19, 2025 - Everyone knows the baseline rule: an attorney cannot, and should not, coach a witness on the record during a deposition or influence the witness to change testimony. A deposition ...