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DoJ to adopt rule easing penalizing corporations for paying attorneys fees for employees

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

Today the Department of Justice will ease its rules of penalizing companies for paying the attorneys fees of its employees. See today's NY Times: U.S. to Ease Pressure Tactic Over Legal Help for Employees. NACDL has worked on this, with others, for three years. The Coalition to Preserve Attorney Client Privilege released its statement: “The new Department of Justice policy on attorney-client privilege and attorney work-product doctrine is a clear and substantive improvement over its current policy, but federal legislation is still needed to insure a permanent and lasting solution to the problem of government-enforced waivers of privilege. “The Justice Department’s track record of five different policies in ten years cries out for a permanent legislative solution that cannot be revised at the whim of each new Deputy Attorney General...continue to full post

Full post as published by Law Of Criminal Defense on August 28, 2008 (boomark / email).