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The Crime-Fraud Exception: A Defense Lawyer's Quandary
The crime-fraud exception often presents a quandary to attorney-client privilege. Is your client's question to you—and your advice—protected by that privilege, or must you disclose it to a grand jury should you be served a subpeona seeking information about any conversations you may have had with a client about extradition? If the crime-fraud exception applies, should you have also considered telling your client of that possibility when they first asked you the question and avoiding the issue altogether?Substance Over Form: Application of Anti-SLAPP Statutes in Federal Court
Many states have enacted statutes curtailing lawsuits designed to chill free speech. Known as anti-SLAPP statutes, these laws often include mechanisms to protect defendants from the burdens of litigation—for example, by allowing defendants to obtain a prompt dismissal through a special pre-trial motion, to avoid discovery and to recover their attorneys' fees upon prevailing.Judge Partially Dismisses Negligence Suit Against Trucking Company Over Employee's Road Rage Killing
A West Virginia federal judge partially dismissed a widow's suit against a trucking company after one of its drivers shot and killed her husband in a road rage incident, ruling she failed to prove that the company knew or should have known that he possessed or carried a loaded, improperly stored firearm.The 2023 WIPL Awards: In-House Best Mentor
For this award, Corporate Counsel recognizes those who have excelled at mentoring others in achieving their career objectives through moral, social, and intellectual support.AI Is Here to Stay. What Will It Take to Use it Wisely?
We regularly hear concerns about the ability of Generative AI to provide the kind of quality that clients expect from their lawyers, and about whether lawyers will be "replaced" by technology. We think both of these concerns are frequently overstated, and distract lawyers from the very timely opportunity to shape AI and the powerful adaptations and applications it will inspire.View more book results for the query "Travelers"
Insurance Coverage Q&A: Tires and a Nail
In this Q&A of the week, an insured runs over a nail with her vehicle and wants to know if it would be a collision loss or excluded under road damage to tires.Electrician's Fall Leads to $5 Million Settlement in Bergen Wrongful Death Case
The estate of an electrician who died after a 30-foot fall in the workplace received payment of a $5 million settlement in a Bergen County wrongful death suit, Roscitt v. Chefler Foods, on Oct. 15.Trending Stories
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