Challenges and delays during the discovery process are a frustrating part of civil litigation. One cause for such delay is the attorney-client privilege arising from internal investigation materials.

From U.S. v. Heppner, handed down today by Judge Jed Rakoff (S.D.N.Y.): ...

Artificial intelligence is advancing rapidly, with new tools answering complex legal questions in minutes. As a result, more ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Supreme Court of Canada put an end to a nearly five-year saga involving Regina lawyer Sharon Fox, upholding her acquittal ...

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 ...