LANSING — Nearly eight years to the day since former Michigan State University doctor Larry Nassar was first publicly accused of abuse, the university's long-withheld cache of thousands of remaining ...

An examination of the applicability of the attorney-client privilege and work product doctrine to communications, documents, and other information in internal corporate investigations, and common ...

A flat-bladed screwdriver can hew away strips of wood. But any woodworker knows a chisel would be the preferred tool for shaving and shaping the wood. Forcing a tool to perform another task not only ...

A decision issued on March 6 by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia serves as a stark reminder that internal investigations must be carefully structured and executed to garner the ...

Samantha Weissbluth, senior counsel, and Simon Johnson, associate, Foley & Lardner LLP, Chicago The fiduciary exception to attorney-client privilege has long complicated attorneys’ lives. And that’s ...

U.S. District Judge Gerald Austin McHugh rejected the "broad claim of attorney-client privilege" over Illuminate's work and communication with CVS, noting that such protections aren't automatically ...

Companies often face the tricky task of producing privileged and confidential information to their independent auditors for audit purposes. Processing Content This article first examines a company's ...

Many lawyers across Missouri take exception to how the Sunshine Law's first exception of attorney-client privilege is interpreted. Some say the exception in the state statute granting the public the ...