U.S. Attorney's Office Settles with Urgent Care Providers to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations Related to Credentialing Issues.

Valeas Capital Partners has announced the closing of its first institutional fund at more than $600 million.

Internal corporate or other entity investigations frequently generate discovery motions that focus on privilege and work product creation and waiver issues.

Facts and events normally do not deserve work product protection. But a lawyer's careful selection of such facts or important events sometimes may reflect his or her strategic assessment...

Separately represented clients sometimes may avoid the normal waiver implications of sharing privileged communications by entering into a common interest agreement...

Several courts have adopted a nonsensical principle that, as one court put it, "[w]hen documents are prepared for dissemination to third parties...

Under the widely recognized common interest doctrine, separately represented clients may sometimes contractually avoid the otherwise inevitable privilege waiver when sharing...

Although lawyers understandably focus mostly on the privilege that they enjoy when communicating with their clients, other professionals...

Companies facing ongoing or threatened litigation must sometimes estimate their likely or possible financial exposure — for internal purposes...

Litigants relying on testifying experts can look to federal or state court rules in determining what they must disclose or may withhold.

Would-be litigants sometimes send a draft complaint to the would-be adversary — either to deter their bothersome conduct or to spur settlement talks.

As noted in several previous Privilege Points, courts have great difficulty assessing privilege protection for communications relating to a Rule 30(b)(6) deposition...

Under the common interest doctrine, separately represented clients may sometimes contractually avoid the normal waiver impact of disclosing privileged communications to each other.

Federal courts have eliminated nearly any chance for unsuccessful trial court litigants to immediately appeal adverse privilege or work product rulings – inexplicably rejecting the obvious...

Clients can waive their privilege protection by intentionally or accidentally disclosing privileged communications, or by explicitly relying on privileged communications...

Corporations risk waiving their fragile privilege protection by sharing protected communications with even the friendliest outsiders — such as their retained public relations...

The attorney-client privilege originated in Roman law, and flourished under what John Adams labeled "that most excellent monument of human art, the common of law of England."

The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors adopted "Parking Reimagined" on Sept. 26, 2023.

Despite staff asking to defer this work until the zoning rewrite process is completed in fall 2023, the board members decided to proceed.

On July 11, 2023, the Spotsylvania County Board of Supervisors approved amendments to the county's comprehensive plan to incorporate long-term planning goals for data center uses.