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 ...

This article was originally published in Westlaw Today on January 5, 2023. Republished with permission. (January 5, 2023) - Susan Combs and Richard Kiely of Holland & Hart LLP offer insights on ...

Attorney-client privilege is a critical protection to safeguard your interests, especially your construction interests.

It is well accepted that when clients communicate with lawyers for the purpose of receiving legal advice, those communications will generally be protected from disclosure. This is because courts and ...

“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 ...

September 19, 2025 - Everyone knows the baseline rule: an attorney cannot, and should not, coach a witness on the record during a deposition or influence the witness to change testimony. A deposition ...

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As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more prevalent in the legal sector and corporate operations, its implications for attorney-client privilege should be a rising concern for board members. AI ...

Many people are aware of the concept that communications between clients and their attorneys are "privileged" but the fine lines of that privilege are not often understood. It is important to be ...

Curious complications come up when the attorney-client privilege is breached. When Donald Trump was arraigned in Florida on federal charges, a condition of the former president’s bail was that he not ...

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 ...