When approaching former employees (whether in the control group or otherwise), attorneys are prohibited from using false pretenses to arrange an interview, or. The privilege to communications between a client's counsel and the client's former employees.").A lawyer shall provide competent representation to a client. Communications with former employees of client. A company's attorney-client privilege does not shield interviews with former employees, at least according to a state supreme court's divided opinion. In Upjohn, the Supreme Court did not fully outline how the attorneyclient privilege applies to communications with former employees. Otherwise inappropriate material to or from the accounts of former employees. I also thought we could review even privileged communications between our soon-to-be ex-employee and… April 19, 2010. In "Attorney-Client Privilege". Unpaid fees will result in the loss of parking privileges. Keys.