Attorney-client privilege in civil litigation : protecting and defending confidentiality / Vincent S. Walkowiak, editor.

Chicago (Ill.) : American Bar Association, 2004.

3rd ed.

25765

Lawyers.

Confidential communications.

Attorney and client.

1. An overview of the attorney-client privilege when the client is a corporation

2. Confidentiality and its relationship to the attorney-client privilege

3. The attorney-client privilege and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

4. The attorney-client privilege and corporate communications : what's still confidential?

5. Communications between related corporations and the attorney-client privilege

6. Privilege of manufacturer product safety quality assurance reviews

7. Communications between attorneys and putative class members

8. The application of the attorney-client privilege and the work-product doctrine to communications between insureds and insurance carriers

9. A second look at privilege and confidentiality in the reinsurance arena

10. Attorney-client and work-product doctrines in environmental coverage litigation

11. Preserving the confidentiality of investigations by in-house and outside counsel

12. Applying the attorney-client privilege to investigations involving attorneys : what is fair game in discovery?

13. Conflict between the permissive scope of fact witness investigation and protection of attorney-client communication

14. Discovery of the in-house expert assigned to litigation

15. Loss of attorney-client privilege through inadvertent disclosure of privileged documents

16. Putting attorneys on the witness stand and their advice at issue : the perils of selective waiver of privilege

17. Preserving candor : the hidden danger from 'exceptions' to the attorney-client privilege

18. The self-defense exception to the attorney's ethical obligation to maintain client confidences

19. Perspectives on the attorney-client privilege and the work-product doctrine

20. The joint defense privilege: an illusion or a magic wand?

21. Duties of emergency disclosure to the government under CERCLA, EPCRA, and the Clean Air Act

22. Beyond the labour and employment lawyer's looking glass : who is my client?

Includes index.

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lxvi, 458 p.