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

Although the Federal Rules do not explicitly require privilege logs, every court seems to do so.

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...

April Fool’s–a day that one cannot trust what one reads on the Web, is fortunately over.

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

The so-called "crime-fraud exception" can strip away privilege protection from otherwise privileged communications that further clients' future criminal or fraudulent conduct.

A long time ago in the e-discovery world, sometime pre-2006, the generally accepted practice was to de-duplicate documents within each custodian's files.

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.

The Supreme Court's decision approved the approach to the issue taken by the courts of appeals, which had uniformly endorsed the disparate impact theory.

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The IRS announced Friday that it has selected 50 companies to get a special 409A audit.

In the comprehensive tax reform proposal by Representative Camp issued yesterday, Section 409A would be repealed.

Before the Senate Finance Committee met to markup a package of tax extenders, Chairman Ron Wyden released a modified version of the base package.

On 28 January 2014, Viviane Reding, Vice-President of the European Commission, and Justice Commissioner, gave a speech at the Center for European Policy Studies (CEPS) think tank, calling for "A data protection compact for Europe".