Earlier this week, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims ruled against a bid protester seeking to stop performance on NASA’s $6.8 billion commercial space program.

The last two Privilege Points discussed the scope of a privilege and fact work product waiver caused by a company's presentations to the SEC about two internal corporate investigations.

Attorney-client privilege issues frequently involve a complicated mixture of fact and law. Three circuit court decisions issued in a three-week period explain the basic approach that most courts take.

Every court holds that the attorney-client privilege rests on confidentiality.

Courts disagree about the attorney-client privilege protection's applicability to draft documents whose final version will be publicly disclosed.

Last week's Privilege Point used two cases to address federal courts' surprising variations in the work product doctrine's "litigation" and "anticipation" elements.

Last week's Privilege Point discussed the New Jersey Supreme Court's recognition of the common interest doctrine. O'Boyle v. Borough of Longport.

The attorney-client privilege provides absolute protection, but can be very difficult to create and easily lost.

On Nov. 16, 2024, the Arlington County Board adopted several policies designed to lay the groundwork for office-residential projects in Arlington County, Virginia.

Email threading is becoming more and more prevalent in the world of e-discovery. It can be a valuable tool for cost-saving and efficiency in document review and production.

When a man's family placed a hidden camera in his senior living residence, it came as a startling surprise to the provider. While the company has a policy against surreptitiously videotaping employees...

According to article 3(1) of the Belgian Royal Decree No. 38 of 27 July 1967 on the application of the social security scheme for self-employed persons, agents of a company or association liable to pay Belgian corporation tax or Belgian tax on non-residents are irrebuttably presumed to pursue a professional activity in Belgium as self-employed persons.

The Democratic Republic of Congo finalized at the end of June 2012 its instruments of adhesion to the OHADA in Senegal, depository state of the OHADA Treaty.

On Nov. 23, 2011, the European Commission (EC) unexpectedly produced its own guidance on EU competition law compliance (which it calls "a sort of competition highway code"), following the trend set by national regulators in the EU.

In its ruling of May 13, 2014, the Court of Justice of the European Union linked the right to be forgotten to the right to "privacy".

On June 27, 2012, a federal appeals court issued an opinion that reversed prior precedent, extended the reach of federal antitrust law to foreign commerce in certain cases, and revived a class action brought by U.S. purchasers alleging that potash producers had operated a cartel outside the United States that had influenced the price of potash in the United States.

On March 3, 2014, Gordon D. McDonald was sentenced to 14 years’ imprisonment for his "central role" in bid-rigging, kickback and fraud conspiracies related to two U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Superfund sites in New Jersey.

VC deals and related capital invested have steadily increased in the last two years; however, cleantech investment has been decreasing since 2012, with this year being the slowest since 2007, says the latest Pitchbook report.

In a Chief Counsel Memorandum issued last month, the IRS concluded that an executive retention arrangement violated Section 409A despite the employer's efforts to correct the arrangement before the retention bonus vested.

The attorney-client privilege protects communications primarily motivated by clients' request for legal advice, and lawyers' response.