Below we offer best practices to ensure that privileged communications with contractors can be protected. The principle that the attorney-client privilege attaches to third-party consultants also has been applied to representatives of the attorney, such as.The Attorney-Client Privilege in Virginia. The attorney-client privilege has not been codified in the Commonwealth. Attorney-client privilege, work-product privilege and similar professional privileges. The relationship between users and ContractsCounsel are not protected as attorney-client privilege or as legal work product. Turns out to be the attorney-client privilege itself. The party claiming the work product privilege must prove that the materials are: 1. Documents and tangible things;. 2.