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Help! The Government Seized My Privileged Documents! What a Recent Fifth Circuit Case Says About How to Respond

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Consider what would happen if government agents executed a search warrant at your business and collected hundreds of emails between employees and outside counsel. What would you do? ...more

K&L Gates LLP

Cross-border Investigations: When Are Documents Developed in the Course of an Internal Investigation Protected by Legal Privilege?

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Introduction - A recent decision by Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht) (“FCC”) has renewed important questions with respect to legal privilege, its varied conceptual and practical scopes and...more

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A closer look: Germany - Landmark decision of the German Federal Constitutional Court on legal privilege in internal...

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The concept of legal privilege between a lawyer and his client is not recognised in the same way under German law as it is in common law jurisdictions. In particular, the jurisprudence of the German courts has until now...more

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U.S. Customs and Border Protection Updates Directive on Searches of Electronic Devices

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U.S. Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) recently updated its 2009 directive pertaining to border searches of electronic devices. The Supreme Court of the United States has deemed warrantless searches by CBP legal and...more

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ABA Gets Lawyers Heightened Protections For Device Searches At International Borders

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U.S. Customs searches have become increasingly invasive over the years. Pursuant to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) policy, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) operates under the “broad search exception”, which...more

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Administration Clarifies and Limits Searches of Electronic Devices at Border

On January 4, 2018, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) issued Directive 3340-049A, governing border searches of electronic devices. CBP’s new directive updates and provides several improvements over the agency’s initial...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

What To Do When You Are Served With a Search Warrant

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In recent years, state and federal law enforcement agencies continue to increase their investigation and prosecution of white collar crime, particularly relating to the securities and healthcare industries. The search warrant...more

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