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Attorney Client Privilege Run in Both Directions

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Via How Appealing, we're told that the Supreme Court in Pennsylvania has clarified that the attorney client privilege covers communications from clients to lawyers and from lawyers to client.  I confess that when I learned that some states had viewed the privilege as running one way (i.e., only communications from client to lawyer), I wondered how that distinction could work as a practical matter.  Do any of our readers know if any states still have "one way" protection?


Full post as published by Legal Ethics Forum on February 24, 2011 (boomark / email).

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