Every business lawyer knows that clients often request "advice" that goes beyond the realm of legal questions and into the world of business issues. The scope of the attorney-client privilege regarding such advice is relatively clear: Purely "legal" advice is protected from disclosure, and purely "business" advice is not. For communications that lie in between, the applicability of the attorney-client privilege is less evident. Recently, the 2nd Circuit examined this grey area of "mixed" communications.
August 01, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Every business lawyer knows that clients often request “advice” that goes beyond the realm of legal questions and into the world of business issues, including matters of policy, strategy, communications and the like.
At the extremes, the scope of the attorney-client privilege regarding such advice is relatively clear: purely “legal” advice is protected from disclosure and purely “business” advice is not.[FOOTNOTE 1]
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