Thomas J. Sabatino Jr., the general counsel of Schering-Plough, a drug maker, and the recent chairman of a panel on auditor-client privilege for the corporate counsel organization, said that auditors and their clients might try to forge acceptable compromises in which the client "provides factual background, as opposed to attorney-client privileged information".
"Do you really think we violate their intellectual property?" Unless it's in a documented attorney-client privileged communication, don't even think about saying anything like that.
In the letters, Sony lawyer David Boies wrote that the hacked information was, "protected under US and foreign legal doctrines protecting attorney-client privileged communications... as well as private financial and other confidential information and communications".
Kaufman's motion blamed the district attorney's Public Integrity Division, arguing that a lack of written protocols for handling attorney-client emails "fostered an environment where the prosecutors and investigators not only reviewed attorney-client-privileged emails willy-nilly but also failed to keep any records of the privileged emails that they read".
He added that neither the fact that a lawyer-client relationship exists nor the fees paid by that client are privileged.
She told Sky News: "Defence lawyers that I have spoken to say they very often feel it is very likely their conversations with clients, legally privileged conversations, may well be bugged".
She readily acknowledges that she and her clients are privileged — lucky to have so many things, lucky to be able to throw them away, lucky to be able to hire someone to help them do so.
Attorney-client privilege is being claimed, but E&Y says customers' names aren't privileged, and some already have turned themselves in possibly under a partial amnesty program.
The article busts two myths about attorney-client privilege: a dollar bill is not a prerequisite to the formation of a privileged relationship; and not all communications with a lawyer are protected.
With the power to waive the attorney-client privilege, Mr. Freeh can make life for the investigators much easier by agreeing to disclose privileged communications to help sort out what management was told.
The rather flimsy story alleged that Rudd's client BAA had privileged access to Lord Mandelson - Rudd's close friend - and used it to lobby for a third runway at Heathrow, which it owns.
