For a communication to be protected by the attorney-client privilege, it needs to be confidential, it must be between the attorney and the client, and it must be for the purpose of seeking or ...

Attorney-client communications must be confidential, and be kept confidential, in order to be privileged and protected from compelled disclosure. When clients communicate with their lawyers, the ...

Lisa Zeiderman, Esq., CDFA, CFL, a Managing Partner at Miller Zeiderman, LLP, is a matrimonial and family law attorney based in New York. Small businesses often encounter issues of confidentiality ...

January 5, 2023 - A communication must be made for the purpose of legal advice to be protected from disclosure by the attorney-client privilege. If legal advice is not the purpose of the communication ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. A lawyer’s legal advice is privileged. A court cannot order the lawyer or the client to disclose it. But a lawyer’s nonlegal ...

Suppose your company suspects an employee broke the law, perhaps even using company property to do so. The company decides to conduct an internal investigation. If your company is sued because of the ...

More than ever before, clients are using artificial intelligence (AI) prior to approaching their attorneys for legal advice. Doing so proves to ...

“This case is a reminder for both companies and lawyers…[that] initiating litigation without an objective basis and using litigation procedures as an unfair competition tool to interfere with a ...