In the News: Attorney-Client Privilege
If you haven’t seen it, you should check out the great editorial in the Wall Street Journal (www.wsj.com) on attorney-client privilege. The editors lambast the DOJ for its reliance on the Thompson...
View ArticleA real win-win day for the privilege
It was a good day for attorney-client privilege junkies like me here at ACC(and that means if you’re corporate counsel, it was a REALLY good day foryou and your clients’ rights): the DOJ finally...
View ArticleLawyers and Auditors: The Perfect Storm of Privilege Issues?
"Answers to Questions You Wish Your Outside Auditor Hadn’t Asked" at the ACC Annual Meeting raised lots of questions, but provided lots of solutions, too. When it comes to privilege protection and...
View ArticlePrivilege Cat and Mouse? How the NYAG’s Actions Against BofA Threaten...
In a case involving an investigation by the NYAG and the SEC of Bank of America’s merger with Merrill Lynch and compensation and bonuses paid to Merrill Lynch executives (see New York Law Journal...
View ArticleFASB to Scale Back FAS 5 Proposal: Organizational Respect For Privilege...
ACC applauds the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) for moving away from its proposed changes to FAS 5 contingent liability reporting requirements and adopting a more reasonable approach in...
View ArticlePrivilege Is Under Attack–Perhaps Not–You Are Under Attack And Only You Can...
In Susan Hackett’s blog on the Textron case she states that the privilege is under attack. Let me suggest, at the risk of inspiring disagreement from Steve Bokat, that what is really under attack is...
View ArticleAKZO Decision Denies Legal Privilege Protections (LPP)/Confidentiality To...
On April 29, Advocate General Juliane Kokott of the Court of Justice of the European Union issued her opinion in the case of Akzo Nobel Chemicals Ltd v. EU (Case-550/07) suggesting that legal...
View ArticleVictory in Gillard v. AIG
Relying at multiple points on an amicus brief filed by the Association of Corporate Counsel and others, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has returned to the fold and will now apply the attorney-client...
View ArticleAttorney Client Privilege—Does Subject Matter Waiver Apply?
Last week, the Illinois Supreme Court answered the question of whether subject matter waivers should apply to attorney-client privilege, and subsequently, calmed the concerns of ACC and others by...
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