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Unlike the work product doctrine, the attorney-client privilege provides absolute protection if properly created and not waived. In State v. Lowery, No. COA11-673, 2012 N.C. App. LEXIS 288, at *13 (N.C. Ct. App. Feb. 21, 2012), a criminal defendant argued that two witnesses' attorney-client privilege claim "should 'give way,' to [his] right to question a witness about private conversations with his or her attorney."