Clients often want a trusted family member by their side when they consult with attorneys. While understandable, doing so can carry serious risks. Under New York law, the general rule is the presence ...
When a corporate crisis hits, companies and boards frequently retain outside counsel to conduct an internal investigation. Last year, in a decision that received widespread attention among outside and ...
In United States v. Heppner, No. 25-cr-503 (JSR), 2026 WL 436479 (S.D.N.Y. Feb. 17, 2026), the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York recently held that a criminal ...
The case clarifies that claiming a “good faith” belief in the lawfulness of conduct typically waives the attorney-client privilege, even if the advice from counsel is not directly used as evidence. If ...
September 19, 2025 - Everyone knows the baseline rule: an attorney cannot, and should not, coach a witness on the record during a deposition or influence the witness to change testimony. A deposition ...
Q: We are in a civil case with others, suing a person who engaged in fraudulent misconduct. We share the same attorney who is trying to establish that the attorney-client privilege between this guy ...
BOSTON — Lawyers across the country are assessing the ramifications of a federal judge’s ruling that a white-collar criminal defendant waived the attorney-client privilege to — and lacked work-product ...
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