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Robins Kaplan LLP

Be Warned: As Fiduciary Duties Shift, So, Too, Can Privilege Ownership

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Picture this. Years after leaving your in-house counsel role at Company A, you find yourself being deposed in a litigation matter with Company A’s adversary inquiring into your legal notes and internal privileged...more

Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

Pitfalls of Attorney-Client Privilege and Tips for Corporate Officers and Employees

Elizabeth Holmes, former CEO of the now-defunct blood-testing technology company Theranos, recently learned a harsh lesson on the complexities and pitfalls of attorney-client privilege.  As a result of a June 3, 2021 ruling...more

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Former Theranos CEO Denied Attorney-Client Privilege Over Communications with Company Attorneys

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Former Theranos CEO Denied Attorney-Client Privilege Over Communications with Company Attorneys; District of Massachusetts Allows Putative Securities Class Action to Proceed Against OvaScience Investors; Delaware Chancery...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Insights: The Delaware Edition - November 2019

This issue focuses on important, developing areas of Delaware corporation law and deal litigation, including recent trends in Delaware corporate disclosure law, the Delaware Supreme Court’s important ruling in Marchand v....more

Burns & Levinson LLP

Corporate Individual Creating a Privileged Communication May Not Control Waiving it

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While companies, like people, are entitled to protect privileged communications with their counsel, companies only can act through individuals. So what happens when the former CEO wants to disclose a privileged communication...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Government’s Penn State Investigation Produces Lessons for In-House Counsel

The fallout at Penn State University in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky child-sexual-abuse scandal, including the victims’ suffering, Sandusky’s criminal conviction, the firing and subsequent death of legendary Coach Joe...more

Blank Rome LLP

The Justice Department’s Yates Memorandum and Three Tips for Government Contractors to Manage the Risks

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The Department of Justice (“DOJ”) is setting its sights on individual accountability for corporate wrongdoing. That is the message that DOJ has been promoting following the recent internal memorandum issued by Deputy Attorney...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

What’s Mine is Not Yours: Former Officers and Directors and a Corporation’s Attorney–Client Privilege

An officer or director’s company exit often feels like a divorce, with post-departure monetary payments and document-custody issues dominating the immediate aftermath. Companies are quick to enforce non-compete agreements and...more

Carlton Fields

Is It Still Privileged? An Insurer’s Disclosure Of Information To Its Reinsurers And Brokers Waives Privilege … Sometimes.

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A federal district court recently held that an insurer waived any claim of attorney-client or work product privilege when it disclosed otherwise potentially privileged information to its reinsurers and to its broker. In doing...more

Troutman Pepper

Counsel to the Company: A Framework for Corporate Governance

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As a threshold matter, counsel must identify, and remain clear as to, the identity of its client, which may be the company or a subsidiary, the Board or Board committee, or one or more executives. The identity of the client...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

Email Users Beware: Companies and Corporate Officers Should Evaluate Email Practices in Light of Delaware Chancery Court Decision

On September 5, 2013, the Delaware Chancery Court ruled that the attorney-client privilege does not protect from disclosure emails sent by corporate officers to their personal attorneys using the company’s email account. In...more

Allen Matkins

Kalisman v. Friedman – A California Analysis

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A few months ago, Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster issued an interesting decision involving director inspection rights and the attorney-client privilege. Kalisman v. Friedman, 2013 Del. Ch. LEXIS 100 (April 17, 2013). ...more

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No Directors, No Officers, No Employees And No Agents – Now What?

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Occasionally, a corporation may find itself with no directors and no management. Yet, the corporation does not cease to exist. One might wonder what use can there be in a corporation deprived of head and limb. In...more

Cozen O'Connor

Using the Privilege: Fifth Amendment Fundamentals for Corporations

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Most in-house lawyers, if they're fortunate, haven't bumped up against the Fifth Amendment and its related issues since the bar exam. After all, the so-called "nickel" typically arises solely in the criminal context, and...more

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