Global Privilege Issues
Attorney-client privilege 'round the globe....
White-Collar Motive, Gun Crazy Movie
In 1950, producers Frank and Maurice King released Gun Crazy, a sometimes surreal Bonnie-and-Clyde story with an introverted, pacifist gun lover (Barton Tare, played by John Dall)...
When Your Lawyer Dimes You In A Wireless World: Undercover Techniques and White-Collar Investigations
It has become commonplace to note the ascendancy in white-collar investigations of techniques previously reserved for investigations of organized crime and violent, life-and-death offenses. Three...
Get Out of Jail Free? Not Without The Attorney-Client Privilege
We have talked about attorney-client privilege, internal investigations and the GM ignition recall: Privilege, Corporate Silence and Saul Goodman, How To Avoid Being GM’ed: The Wrongs...
Of Snitches and Privileges
White-collar writer Walt Pavlo of @Forbes and 500 Pearl Street quotes us this morning in his insightful @Forbes article about the attorney-client privilege. In particular: Federal...
Privilege, Corporate Silence and Saul Goodman
We are past Labor Day, and just as well. Marked by the GM internal-investigation report’s criticism of some of the company’s internal lawyers, the summer...
It’s Okay To Smell A Rat: Internal Investigations, Attorney-Client Privilege and the KBR Decision
Post-recession, we are living through an era of regulators’ grimaces and prosecutors’ giddiness. Editorialists and bloggers want business scalps, especially scalps of individuals (as opposed...
Board Room, Bored Room and the Existential Horror of Styrofoam Coffee Cups: 13 Ways to Avoid Waiving Privilege in Corporate Meetings
This discussion by Mark Herrmann at Above The Law — Law Firm Meetings Vs. Corporate Meetings, Meetings, Meeting, And Meetings! — is a wonderful set-piece about meetings. ...