This article examines the relationship between the attorney-client privilege and the duty to maintain confidentiality, including how the two concepts overlap and how they apply under different ...

Many clients automatically assume attorney-client privilege applies even when the client’s spouses or children are present during legal consultations. In New York, however, a family member’s presence ...

The attorney-client privilege preserves the confidentiality of communications between lawyers and their clients. As a legal entity, the University can assert the privilege. Communications may be ...

I have previously written about the need to ensure employees understand their confidentiality obligations to their employers in making postings to social networking and other similar sites.

A new ABA ethics opinion says attorneys must narrowly limit disclosures to courts when seeking to withdraw from a case.

Attorney-client privilege is an age-old concept that ensures the confidentiality of many of the communications between you and your legal representation. But it’s not necessarily an all-encompassing ...

Attorney-client privilege is a legal concept that keeps confidential the communications between a person and his or her attorney. At issue in the case of Sen. Ulysses Currie (D-Prince George's) is ...