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...

A discussion on where do the courts look when determining whether a litigant has proven attorney client privilege, as some courts assess a privilege or work product claim by relying on extrinsic evidence such as affidavits, while other courts look primarily or exclusively at the withheld documents themselves.

Unlike the rules-based work product doctrine, the attorney-client privilege developed organically in every United States jurisdiction.

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."

Although the attorney-client privilege does not rest on constitutional principles, criminal defendants' right to counsel generally prevents the government from intruding into privileged communications.

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.

Taxpayers had no definitive guidance as to whether a charitable contribution to a disregarded LLC owned by a charity would entitle the donor to a federal income tax charitable deduction.

In the comprehensive tax reform proposal by Representative Camp issued yesterday, Section 409A would be repealed.

On Oct. 1, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court granted the government’s petition for writ of certiorari in United States v. Quality Stores, Inc., et al., 693 F.3d, which held that certain severance payments received by employees were not subject to taxation under the Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA).

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".