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Protecting Internal Investigation Materials From Disclosure

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In United States ex rel. Wollman v. Massachusetts Gen. Hosp., Inc., No. CV 15-11890-ADB, 2020 WL 4352915 (D. Mass. July 29, 2020), yet another district court agreed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

SEC v. RPM International — A Cautionary Case Study on the Limits of Attorney-Client Privilege and Work-Product Protection

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While much of the corporate legal world has been focused on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, a little-noticed case working its way through the federal courts in Washington, D.C. threatens to whittle down the scope of...more

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The Advice of Counsel Defense - Just How Far Does that Attorney-Client Privilege Waiver Go?

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Following a recent federal court ruling, parties contemplating an advice of counsel defense must consider carefully the scope of the accompanying attorney-client privilege waiver. In United States ex rel. Lutz v. Berkeley...more

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Preserving the Attorney-Client Privilege when Conducting an Internal Investigation

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You may recall that, back in July 2014, we advised that the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals had overturned a D.C. District Court decision in a False Claims Act case that required the results of an internal investigation, which...more

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KBR And Maintaining Privilege Throughout Investigations

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Last month, for the second time, the D.C. Circuit in In re Kellogg Brown & Root Inc., No. 14-5319, slip op. (D.C. Cir. Aug. 11, 2015), granted a writ of mandamus sought by KBR and vacated a series of district court orders...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Appeals Court Decision Protects Attorney-Client Privilege in Internal Investigation

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In In re Kellogg Brown & Root, Inc., et al., No. 14-5319 (D.C. Cir. August 11, 2015), the Court reversed a district court’s ruling that KBR waived these protections by using materials created in the course of a privileged...more

Snell & Wilmer

D.C. Circuit Weighs In Once Again in KBR Privilege Fight

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In the ongoing saga which has been the subject of a previous post on this blog, a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has once again found that the district court erred in ordering the production of the...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Implied Waiver of Privilege in Internal Investigations: Barko Court Compels Production of Internal Investigation Documents, Again

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On November 20, 2014, the District Court for the District of Columbia once again ordered Kellogg, Brown and Root (“KBR”) to produce all documents prepared as part of an internal investigation.  The District Court’s decision...more

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Uncertain Privilege: Implied Waiver of the Attorney-Client Privilege in False Claims Act Litigation

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In a pending False Claims Act (“FCA”) case stemming from alleged violations of the physician self-referral law (the “Stark Law”), 42 U.S.C. § 1395nn, and the federal Anti-Kickback Statute (“AKS”), 42 U.S.C. §1320a-7b, the...more

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White Collar Watch - October 2014

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In This Issue: - Government demonstrates willingness to enforce Affordable Care Act provision that could cost providers millions of dollars - Words can come back to haunt you: Boilerplate pleading could lead...more

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Words can come back to haunt you: Boilerplate pleading could lead to inadvertent waiver of attorney-client privilege

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Recently, a federal district court in Georgia ruled that a defendant waived the attorney-client privilege in communications with counsel about the lawfulness of its conduct under the False Claims Act simply by pleading good...more

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