If a company needs to disclose information from an internal investigation to auditors, regulators or shareholders, it must be alert to the risk that it could waive the legal protections for ...

Attorney-client privilege in corporate investigations is difficult to create and very fragile. So fragile, in fact, that companies lose 50 percent of the cases brought by parties seeking to breach the ...

Clients often want a trusted family member by their side when they consult with attorneys. While understandable, doing so can carry serious risks. Under New York law, the general rule is the presence ...

In A.L.M. Holding Co. v. Zydex Industries Private Ltd., the district court refused to find waiver of attorney-client privilege that shielded pre-litigation communications with counsel even though the ...

Consulting an AI chatbot for legal matters can see your chat history used against you by opposition lawyers… and potentially risks waiving attorney-client privilege with your own lawyer. AI tools are ...