As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly embedded in legal workflows, managing partners and in-house legal leaders must confront a critical threshold issue: whether legal advice created with ...

Attorney-client privilege is formidable and taken very seriously in California. The privilege is not, however, absolute.

In the context of third-party liability claims, a familiar arrangement arises when an insurer retains defense counsel for its insured: the ...

Attorney-client privilege (which comes from a variety of sources, depending on the state and court) and work product doctrine ...

If a lawyer is a defendant to a lawsuit and their defense primarily rests on privileged information, what the lawyer is permitted to disclose often depends on what the lawyer is accused of and by whom ...

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Attorneys generally bill time in tenths of an hour, dutifully keeping for clients a contemporaneous record of everything from conversations, to areas of law researched, to summaries and outcomes of ...

When federal prosecutors apply for a search warrant on the premises of an attorney, Justice Department policy requires the approval of either the district's U.S. attorney or the assistant U.S.

The court said lawyers can ask for “innocence at stake” exceptions when they are criminally accused ...