Lawyers are known to "talk shop" with other lawyers, online or in person, to review hot legal issues of the day. One popular legal community is the listserv—an email group that may be tailored to a ...

Maintaining client confidentiality is a cornerstone of practicing law, and it is also essential to preserving trust and maintaining professionalism. Unfortunately, many lawyers forget or are not aware ...

While confidentiality is usually destroyed when communications between an attorney and client take place in the presence of a third party or when work product is shared with others, those ...

Should an attorney who knows that her client committed a murder for which a wrongly convicted man spends 26 years in jail break her silence in abrogation of her attorney-client privilege? To prevent ...

CPA firms either maintain or have access to numerous types of client records and related working papers. Requests for access to copies of such records can arise from multiple sources, including ...

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more prevalent in the legal sector and corporate operations, its implications for attorney-client privilege should be a rising concern for board members. AI ...

Legal ethics establishes the fundamental norms and standards that govern the conduct of judges and lawyers within the legal profession. At its core, this field is concerned with ensuring that legal ...

Talkspace, a site for online therapy and counseling, was apparently in a panic. When its commitment to client confidentiality was challenged, its response was hasty, ill-advised and hurtful to clients ...