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Two Federal Courts Assess a Prospective Client’s Privilege Protection on the Same Day

Communications between a lawyer and a prospective client can involve ethics (confidentiality and conflicts) issues, as well as privilege protection issues. Not surprisingly, the availability of privilege protection depends on the context.

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Work Product Protection Can Be Overcome in Some Circumstances, but the Privilege Is Absolute — Right?

Most lawyers know that fact work product protection can be overcome in certain circumstances, opinion work product is “absolutely or nearly absolutely” protected, and that the attorney-client privilege is absolute. But as with other supposedly universal concepts, there are exceptions.

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Must Litigants Identify Their Non-Testifying Experts?

Litigants relying on testifying experts can look to federal or state court rules in determining what they must disclose or may withhold. In contrast, courts take widely varying views of those issues in addressing litigants’ non-testifying experts.

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