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Illinois Appellate Court Declines to Extend Crime-Fraud Exception To Defamation Claims

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Allegations of defamation and conspiracy to defame alone are insufficient to establish the crime-fraud exception and defeat the attorney-client privilege, the Illinois Appellate Court recently held. In MacDonald v....more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Delaware Court Limits Former Directors' Access to Privileged Information

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Delaware’s Chancery Court recently blocked two former directors from obtaining privileged communications between a corporation and its counsel in the context of the former directors’ pursuit of personal claims against the...more

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Revenge of the Whistle-blower: Possible Consequences of Compliance Failures

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In a company with a robust compliance culture, potential whistleblowers can express their concerns without fear of retribution. By contrast, the penalty for a culture that silences whistleblowers just got steeper. Companies...more

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Despite Privilege, GC May Pursue Whistleblower Retaliation Suit under SOX and Dodd–Frank

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California’s USDC–ND ruled that Bio-Rad Laboratories’ former General Counsel may use privileged communications to prove his retaliatory-discharge case prosecuted under Sarbanes–Oxley and Dodd–Frank’s whistleblower...more

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