Ethics

Should communications with in-house counsel never be privileged, since the lawyer is not independent of the client? If the premise sounds flawed, then you're with me, but you should read about the fight going on in Europe right now. A short piece on that case, Akzo Nobel Chemicals and Akcros Chemicals v. Commission of the European Communities, is available here.

Seems to me that any view of inside counsel as not "separate" from their corporate employers misses the mark, and widely, at least here in the US.