Attorney-Client Privilege, Work-Product Doctrine, Employer Liability Issues

Google’s Union Campaign Strategy Documents Not Privileged, NLRB Administrative Law Judge

Proskauer - Labor Relations Update on 12/6/2021

Google recently suffered a blow in its ongoing National Labor Relations Board litigation, when an Administrative Law Judge appointed to rule on a discovery dispute ordered the Silicon Valley company to turn over the lion’s...more

Federal Court Provides 5-Step Roadmap For Ensuring Your Pay Equity Audits Are Confidential

Fisher Phillips on 10/30/2020

Employers conducting internal pay equity audits now have a roadmap for ensuring that their pay equity audits remain confidential in the wake of pay equity litigation. Thanks to a recent federal court ruling from an Oregon...more

Managing Post-Accident Communications – Preserving Legal Privileges and Limiting Liability

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 10/9/2020

Hopefully most employers will never experience a serious workplace accident involving personal injury, property damage or both. This article will provide recommendations for an employer to respond in a forthright manner while...more

The impact of society’s demands for transparency on internal investigations and their investigators

Brooks Pierce on 4/18/2019

There has been much attention — and rightfully so — on the impact of the #MeToo movement within the workplace. That impact has significantly changed employment policies and practices from large national corporations to small...more

Internal Investigations and Privilege: The Alberta Court of Appeal Weighs In

Bennett Jones LLP on 7/21/2017

The documents and records of an internal investigation into a workplace accident may be privileged notwithstanding a statutory obligation to carry out an investigation and prepare a report, the Alberta Court of Appeal...more

Protect the Privilege: Considerations in Employment Investigations

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck on 8/25/2016

Employers can take many steps to help maximize the likelihood that attorney-client privileged information and work product will be protected in the context of employment-related investigations. In the recent case of City...more

Legal Advice Or PR Plan? A Pertinent Privilege Conundrum

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 6/10/2016

The ever-expanding scope of what constitutes the “press” creates new issues for companies and their counsel dealing with disputes that either are in or will develop into litigation. Routine corporate disputes that received no...more

Common Sense Prevails as D.C. Circuit Applies Upjohn in Vacating District Court Order to Produce Investigation Reports

Snell & Wilmer on 7/1/2014

Government contractors and other companies subject to internal investigation requirements won some relief from the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on June 26 with a decision that firmly reiterated that...more

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