That narrow opening tells organizations where their potential safe harbor is: enterprise tools with contractual confidentiality protections, used within counsel-directed workflows. The risk isn't ...

More than ever before, clients are using artificial intelligence (AI) prior to approaching their attorneys for legal advice. Doing so proves to ...

A New York federal court just issued the first ruling to tackle head-on whether conversations with a public AI chatbot can be protected by attorney–client privilege or the work product doctrine. The ...

The high court reviewed whether a client can have a third-party receive privileged communication with their attorney.

Attorney-client communications must be confidential, and be kept confidential, in order to be privileged and protected from compelled disclosure. When clients communicate with their lawyers, the ...

Arizona high court: privilege holds if legal advice was the dominant purpose. New limits on crime‑fraud challenges.

Samantha Weissbluth, senior counsel, and Simon Johnson, associate, Foley & Lardner LLP, Chicago The fiduciary exception to attorney-client privilege has long complicated attorneys’ lives. And that’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 ...

A critical skill for any corporate counsel is the ability to assess which internal conversations are protected by attorney-client privilege and take steps to ensure that privilege remains unbroken.

Lawyers can ask for an exception to solicitor-client privilege if they have been charged with a crime and need access to their clients’ privileged communications to defend themselves, the Supreme ...