Attorney Client Privilege With Consultants In New York
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Unless the client waives the privilege, an attorney or his or her employee, or any person who obtains without the knowledge of the client evidence of a confidential communication made between the attorney or his or her employee and the client in the course of professional employment, shall not disclose, or be allowed ...
In New York, not all communications to an attorney are privileged. Legal invoices are discoverable.
Four Practical Tips for Protecting the Attorney-Client Privilege,... CLEARLY IDENTIFY PRIVILEGED COMMUNICATIONS. PRIVILEGE RULES OUTSIDE THE US ARE DIFFERENT. USE CAUTION WHEN COMMUNICATING WITH OUTSIDE DIRECTORS. IN-HOUSE COUNSEL SHOULD CAREFULLY CONSIDER THE RISKS OF SIGNING AFFIDAVITS OR SWORN STATEMENTS.
Unless the client waives the privilege, an attorney or his or her employee, or any person who obtains without the knowledge of the client evidence of a confidential communication made between the attorney or his or her employee and the client in the course of professional employment, shall not disclose, or be allowed ...
Discoverable Information and the Testifying Expert Communications between an expert witness and the party's attorney are also protected, under Fed.R.Civ.Pro.
The appellate court noted that various New York cases, based on a superseded statute (the old CPLR §835), had stated in dicta that “the power to waive the attorney-client privilege ends with the death of the client.” However, the court stated: “such dicta are not binding as a matter of law, and are unpersuasive as ...
A decision recently issued by the New York Supreme Court (County of Saratoga) illustrates one of these exceptions — the “fiduciary exception.” The court ruled that the fiduciary exception to the attorney-client privilege enabled the minority owner of a multi-company family business to obtain information about ...
