The Association of Corporate Counsel has taken two recent legal stands to promote in-house practice: one opposes a Pennsylvania trial court’s ruling that attorney-client privilege ends when a corporation is dissolved, and the other urges the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., to expand its bar admission rules.
In its April 28 amicus brief [PDF] in the Superior Court of Pennsylvania, ACC argued against chilling corporate communication and cited the importance of attorney-client privilege in today’s complex regulatory world. “Contrary to the trial court’s holding, that undeniable need does not diminish when a business faces dissolution,” said ACC chief legal strategist Amar Sarwal in a statement.
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