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Marital Communications Privilege

Foley & Lardner LLP

Beware of Unguarded Talk: A Cautionary Tale of Privilege Waiver in Wisconsin

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Loose lips sink ships. And, at least according to the Wisconsin Court of Appeals, they can sink the protections afforded to privileged communications. A decision last week in a criminal case could have considerable...more

Allen Matkins

This N.C. Case Cries For Comment

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A recent North Carolina Court of Appeals State v. Matsoake started me to think about what constitutes a communication.  The case involved whether an ex-wife’s testimony about seeing her husband crying should have been...more

Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP

“Love and Marriage” – New Jersey Supreme Court Poised to Determine Whether the Marital Privilege Can Defeat Wiretap Evidence

In Brief - Over the past four years, the government has broadened the use of wiretaps to include insider trading, and to great success (the recent convictions of Raj Rajaratnam and Rajat Gupta serve as examples of...more

Saul Ewing LLP

White Collar Watch - August 2013

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Contents - SEC Changes Course: Some Companies Must Now Admit Wrongdoing - Fifth Circuit’s Recent Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Ruling May Benefit Employers - “Love and Marriage” – New Jersey Supreme Court...more

Burns & Levinson LLP

A Marital Disqualification

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I got caught this April Fools’ Day by a very funny and elaborate April Fools’ prank by my partner Shep Davidson, co-author with Renee Inomata of The In-House Advisor blog. It made me think about a real evidentiary...more

Cozen O'Connor

Confidentiality From The Boardroom To The Bedroom

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Sometimes we can learn valuable employment law lessons from even the non-employment law court decisions. What happens if the boardroom meeting to discuss your company’s trade secrets ends up as pillow talk between an...more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

Post-Apocalypse (Well, Post-Vacation, Anyway) Employment Law Roundup

Happy new year, everybody! Although I've been on vacation, the news never sleeps, and the Mayans were wrong. Accordingly, I have a few items to catch you up on....more

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Marital Communications are “Essential to the Preservation of Marriage” – Unless Made from a Workplace Computer

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Communications between spouses are typically accorded a “marital communications privilege” because they are “regarded as so essential to the preservation of the marriage relationship as to outweigh the disadvantages to the...more

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