With bills now introduced in both the House and Senate, a wide-ranging coalition of business, bar and civil rights groups sees possible success by year’s end for a new law barring federal prosecutors from requiring waiver of attorney-client and work-product protections in corporate investigations.
Bolstering its political campaign is a new survey by the Association of Corporate Counsel that found that more than 90 percent of 458 in-house counsel responding believe that the attorney-client privilege in the context of government investigations is either nonexistent or severely damaged. That is an increase from the organization’s 2005 survey, when 74 percent of respondents shared those sentiments.
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