Ethics

Story here.   To some degree, the bill would ban a practice -- prosecutors conditioning leniency upon the defendant's waiver of the attorney client privilege -- that has been on the wane since the KPMG debacle, where many the government's prosecutions were dismissed becuase of interference with the defendants' right to counsel.   Susan Hackett, the GC of the Association or Corporate Counsel and a key sponsor of the legislation, says, "[T]his is not a pro-company bill. This is about the fundamental premise upon which all legal counseling is based."