Privilege

Privilege

McGuireWoods LLP

Lawyers representing corporations all recognize the privilege waiver risk of disclosure to outsiders. But there are two huge risks to privilege protection even for internal corporate communications.

Privilege

McGuireWoods LLP

Corporations risk waiving their fragile privilege protection by sharing protected communications with even the friendliest outsiders — such as their retained public relations consultants, etc. They must disclose some information to their auditors, but does that waive corporations’ privilege protection?

Privilege

McGuireWoods LLP

The last two Privilege Points have described yet another losing effort to protect a data breach investigation and related communications.