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Corporate Privelege: 'One Way Street' Rulings, Legal Advice

By David Badertscher, PLL

Source: National Law Journal: NLJ.com Daily Headlines, February 22, 2008.

COLUMN:

CORPORATE PRIVILEGE  |  'One-Way Street' Rulings
"Although the attorney-client privilege generally is viewed as protecting confidential communications relating to legal advice running in both directions?from client to attorney and from attorney to client?not every court reads the law that way. Rather, starting from the premise that the privilege exists to protect client confidences, some courts sustain privilege claims for communications from attorneys to clients only if they are based on or reveal confidential communications or facts from the clients."

Full post as published by New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library on February 22, 2008 (boomark / email).