Internal Investigations in the Asia-Pacific Region
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued a summary order affirming a district court’s holding that an emailed response to the plaintiff’s email did not constitute an “initial communication” under the Fair Debt...more
Lawyers and communicators play important roles in protecting a business from reputational harm and legal liability. They serve an organization best when they work together and often can benefit from knowing more about each...more
It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years — and this past...more
The Supreme Court was seemingly set to decide whether and when a party can assert attorney-client privilege protection over communications containing both legal and non-legal advice, but SCOTUS recently decided to bypass the...more
Addressing an important issue for in-house counsel, the Supreme Court will resolve a three-way circuit split as to when “dual-purpose” attorney-client communications that contain both legal and non-legal advice are protected...more
Members of WLG's Compliance & Investigation Group hosted a panel discussion on Internal Investigations in the Asia-Pacific Region. We heard from member firms in Australia, China, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, and Vietnam....more
One of the perceived benefits of closely held corporations is their ability to keep secrets. Indeed, closely held corporations can legally hide a great deal of information. Family businesses are especially likely to keep...more
Join World Law Group's Compliance & Investigations Group for a panel discussion on Internal Investigations in the Asia-Pacific Region. Panelists in Australia, China, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, and Vietnam will address...more
Communications with a party represented by another lawyer absent consent (sometimes called “blitzes”) are permitted in putative class actions, a federal court has ruled in a case brought under the Class Action Fairness Act...more
In this order from Buckley LLP v. Series 1 of Oxford Ins. Co. NC LLC, Chief Judge Bledsoe dealt with dueling motions to compel. Both sides claimed that their hybrid business-legal communications were privileged. After an...more
Author’s note: This article is written from the perspective of a white, cisgendered legal marketing professional, and its call to action is directed at those with similarly situated identities. It is not meant to direct or...more
Corporate counsel and their clients exchange confidential communications daily. Included in these exchanges are assumptions about what is and what will remain attorney-client privileged. For in-house counsel, communications...more
In In re Jones, parties filed a mandamus proceeding to challenge the trial court’s disqualification of their attorney. No. 12-19-00354-CV, 2019 Tex. App. LEXIS 11267 (Tex. App.—Tyler December 31, 2019, original opinion). ...more
On January 9, 2020, the Supreme Court of Virginia approved Legal Ethics Opinion (“LEO”) 1890, which comments on a number of issues under Virginia Rule of Professional Conduct 4.2, “Communication with Persons Represented by...more
In a series of IPR proceedings between Petitioner Adobe Inc. and Patent Owner RAH Color Technologies LLC, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board declined to extend attorney work product protection to deposition questions seeking...more
In inter partes review (IPR) proceedings of patents relating to printer technology, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) granted Patent Owner’s motion to compel testimony over Petitioner’s arguments that the information...more
It might sound clichéd, but communication is key to successful client/outside counsel relationships. Strong communication should exist from the Request for Proposal (RFP) to invoicing and throughout the life cycle of the...more
Finding the right lawyer may be an overwhelming task; Silicon Valley is saturated with attorneys and law firms, varying in both expertise and size. Your initial form of contact with prospective firms will likely be over the...more
Daily, we interact with lots of people – this happens in person, at our offices, in the coffee shop, at our kids’ sporting events or art classes. It happens online, through our group chats, text messages with friends,...more
In Dialysis Clinic, Inc. v. Kevin Medley, 567 S.W.3d 314 (TN 2019), the Tennessee Supreme Court decided as a matter of first impression that attorney communications with a third party for the purpose of providing legal advice...more
The attorney-client privilege is intended to protect communications between an attorney and his/her client. The Supreme Court stated that the privilege exits to “encourage full and frank communication between attorneys and...more
This is a significant decision, given how often non-U.S. clients entrust U.S. law firms with their documents. On July 10, 2018, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled that law firm Cravath need not divulge...more
The attorney-client privilege in California belongs to the office of trustee, not to the incumbent in that office, thus generally allowing successor trustees to obtain confidential communications that their predecessors had...more
The fast pace of technological change has left the poor and unrepresented behind in many parts of America. But in New York State family courts, Proskauer lawyers are part of an exciting new pilot project spearheaded by the...more
On August 25, 2017, Justice Shirley Werner Kornreich of the New York Commercial Division entered an order reprimanding a high-profile lawyer, Mark Geragos, for misconduct during a deposition, including refusing to answer...more