In most situations, a client's denial that an attorney-client communication occurred does not waive the client's privilege.

Historical facts do not deserve attorney-client privilege protection, although the privilege can shield from discovery communications between clients and their lawyers about those facts.

The Fed. R. Civ. P 26(b)(3) refers to "documents and tangible things that are prepared in anticipation of litigation or for trial", but most courts also protect intangible work product, either ignoring the rule's literal language or relying on a parallel federal common law work product doctrine.

The federal work product rule and its state counterparts on their face protect only "documents and tangible things." Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(b)(3)(A).

Corporations and their lawyers frequently work with public relations consultants when facing ongoing or anticipated litigation.

Under Fed. R. Civ. P. 30(b)(6), an entity must prepare a designated witness to testify about specified topics.

Courts must sometimes examine the context of documents in determining whether they deserve privilege or work product protection.

Contention interrogatories highlight the critical role of timing in the work product doctrine context.

Some courts have adopted unrealistically strict rules about privilege logs, such as a requirement to list every person who learned a withheld document's content.

The SEC filed a civil action against the defendants, an individual and three of his companies, based upon their illegal offering scheme that preyed primarily on the elderly.

Communications between a lawyer and a prospective client can involve ethics (confidentiality and conflicts) issues, as well as privilege protection issues.

Under Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(b)(3)(B), a court concluding that an adversary can overcome a litigant's work product protection "must protect against disclosure of the mental impressions, conclusions, opinions, or legal theories of a party's attorney or other representative concerning the litigation."

Unlike the absolute attorney-client privilege (and the absolute or nearly absolute opinion work product doctrine protection), a litigant can overcome the adversary's fact work product protection...

Earlier this month, fitness-tracking company Fitbit, Inc. filed a Form S-1 Registration Statement for an IPO of up to $100 million that exhaustively disclosed potential cybersecurity risks with respect to the personal data the company collects.

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On Nov. 11, 2023, the Arlington County Board adopted Plan Langston Boulevard (PLB) after a nearly five-year planning process.

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