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 ...

Scott Balber, John O'Donnell and Benjamin Mills, of Herbert Smith Freehills. discuss key considerations for establishing and maintaining privilege over materials generated in the course of an internal ...

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 ...

From U.S. v. Heppner, handed down today by Judge Jed Rakoff (S.D.N.Y.): At a pretrial conference in this matter held on February 10, 2026, the Court … granted from the bench the Government's motion ...

BOSTON — Lawyers across the country are assessing the ramifications of a federal judge’s ruling that a white-collar criminal defendant waived the attorney-client privilege to — and lacked work-product ...

Many lawyers across Missouri take exception to how the Sunshine Law's first exception of attorney-client privilege is interpreted. Some say the exception in the state statute granting the public the ...