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The Corporate Client: You’re My Lawyer, Right?

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The ABA recently provided insight for attorneys who represent corporate clients. While that engagement is often limited to an attorney’s duty to the organization, there is a very real risk that the organization’s members –...more

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Why Doesn’t the Crime-Fraud Exception More Frequently Swallow the Attorney-Client Privilege?

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Criminal defendants accused of white-collar crimes often deal with lawyers before and even while engaged in their alleged criminal misconduct. All or most lawyers have the vague notion that the attorney-client privilege can...more

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Tailor FRE 502(d) Orders to the Case

Having taught Federal Rule of Evidence 502 (FRE 502) in my law classes for over a decade, I felt I had a firm grasp of its nuances. Yet recent litigation where I serve as Special Master prompted me to revisit the rule with...more

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Arizona Court of Appeals Clarifies Proper Scope of Deposition Questioning and Gives Litigants Early Look at New Special Action...

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The Arizona Court of Appeals recently held that in a deposition, a party must answer any relevant, non-harassing question, unless the answer is privileged. Attorneys are on notice that sanctions are fair game if they instruct...more

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This Week in eDiscovery: Fitness App Data and eDiscovery | Parent Companies and Privilege

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Every week, the Array team reviews the latest news and analysis about the evolving field of eDiscovery to bring you the topics and trends you need to know. This week’s post covers the period of January 5-11. Here’s what’s...more

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When Can a Litigant Overcome the Adversary’s Fact Work Product Protection?

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Unlike the absolute attorney-client privilege (and the absolute or nearly absolute opinion work product doctrine protection), a litigant can overcome the adversary’s fact work product protection if it “shows that it has...more

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Sec Lit IQ: MoFo’s Quarterly Federal Securities Litigation and Delaware Corporate Litigation Newsletter (Q4 2024)

We are pleased to announce the launch of MoFo’s new quarterly newsletter highlighting the most important developments in federal securities and Delaware corporate litigation. In this first edition, we provide a rundown of the...more

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Privilege Log, Privilege Log — It’s All About the Description

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A privilege log is the absolute bane of an attorney’s existence. I don’t mean it isn’t important and a critical component of discovery, but the level of planning, analysis and detail required to complete such a log is...more

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False Claims Act Insights - Is DOJ Allowed to Share Privileged Documents with Whistleblowers in FCA Disputes?

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Host Jonathan Porter welcomes Husch Blackwell partner Kip Randall back to the program to dig deeper into Omni Healthcare, Inc. et al v. MD Spine Solutions LLC et al., a False Claims Act litigation in which the defendant...more

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[Webinar] Important eDiscovery Case Law Decisions for January 2025 - January 22nd, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm ET

New year, new case law! In our January 2025 monthly webinar of cases covered by the eDiscovery Today blog, we will discuss disputes related to whether emojis constitute contract agreement, privilege status of text messages,...more

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Blurred Lines: Personal Devices, Proportionality, and Piercing the Work Product Privilege

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In a fairly short opinion and order, the district court in Weston v. DocuSign, Inc. analyzed whether the parties were entitled to the production of text messages from former employees’ personal devices and potential piercing...more

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Non-Lawyer Corporate Employees Can Claim Privilege Protection for Investigation-Related Communications

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Outside and in-house lawyers may of course normally claim privilege protection for their investigation-related communications, as long as they were primarily motivated by the need for legal advice. Depending on the...more

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Court Adopts Variation of Bizarre Privilege Principle

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Several courts have adopted a nonsensical principle that, as one court put it, “[w]hen documents are prepared for dissemination to third parties, neither the document itself, nor preliminary drafts, are entitled to immunity.”...more

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Top 10 Whistleblowing and Retaliation Events of 2024

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Following our annual tradition — which started over a decade ago — we are analyzing the year's 10 most significant whistleblower and retaliation events. As you'll see, in 2024, actions taken by a range of courts and...more

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Can Advertising Agencies Ever Be Within Privilege Protection?

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Numerous Privilege Points have described cases concluding that advertising agencies are outside privilege protection but inside work product protection (although they normally cannot themselves create protected work product)....more

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Collaborating Effectively Within Your Organization During Internal Investigations

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Our White Collar, Government & Internal Investigations Team offers effective and actionable best practices for companies to follow in conducting their internal investigations....more

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New York Federal and State Courts Deal With Privilege and Work Product Implications of Intrafamily Communications

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The differing waiver rules governing the fragile attorney-client privilege and the robust work product doctrine protection predictably create stark differences when family members communicate with each other. This type of...more

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Understanding the Dominant Purpose Test for Determining Whether Privilege Applies

In complex litigation, understanding when a document is protected by attorney-client privilege can be challenging, especially when privilege issues arise in multidistrict litigation (MDL) like the In re Uber Technologies,...more

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Court Tackles a Tough Issue: Work Product in the Insurance Context

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Some readers have asked why Privilege Points have only rarely focused on work product issues in the insurance context. In addition to the sometimes dramatic differences between states’ handling of this issue, a recent case...more

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Godoy v. Linzner and the Lawyer’s Duty to Shut Down a Bad Idea

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Under universally accepted law, across every jurisdiction, lawyers owe vital and concrete duties to their clients.  The duty of confidentiality.  The duty of loyalty.  The duty to disclose.  And, greatest of all, the duty to...more

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This Week in eDiscovery: AI Terms of Use Address Legal | Non-Traditional Communications

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Every week, the Array team reviews the latest news and analysis about the evolving field of eDiscovery to bring you the topics and trends you need to know. This week’s post covers the period of November 17-23. Here’s what’s...more

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Another Federal Court Assesses Work Product Protection for Litigant’s Communications with Its Litigation Funder

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With the growth of litigation funding as a mechanism for financing litigation, companies interviewing and ultimately selecting a funder inevitably share work product with them. In such circumstances, courts must assess (1)...more

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Key Takeaways | Don’t Be Privileged When Asserting Privilege

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This session of the Private Client West Coast Forum 2024 identified common types of privilege, highlighting potential pitfalls to avoid and tools to protect a client’s privileged information. Types of privilege include...more

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[Webinar] 2024 Legal Ethics Year in Review - December 12th, 12:00 pm CT

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Leading ethics attorneys Lucian Pera, Partner with Adams and Reese, and Trish Rich, Partner with Holland & Knight, return for a free, one-hour review of the most important developments of the last year (or so) in legal ethics...more

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How to Prepare for an IRS Audit

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We are often asked how to prepare for an IRS audit. The first and most important thing to know is that speaking directly with the IRS is not in your best interest. IRS Revenue Officers (auditors) are skilled interrogators....more

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