A/C Privilege Trends - 1-1/2 Ethics - December 9, 2014

Attorney-Client Privilege and Work Product Doctrine Issues: Basic Rules and New Trends

Sponsored by Bloomberg BNA

This program will explore perhaps the most important legal doctrine all lawyers should understand: the attorney-client privilege. It will also address the separate but related issue of work product doctrine protection.

The following ten topics will be discussed: (1) how to determine which attorney-client privilege and work product law will apply; (2) clients' nearly universal misunderstanding of the privilege's applicability and the key legal advice component; (3) privilege protection in a corporate setting, including the danger of widespread intra-corporate communications,  beyond those with a "need to know"; (4) sources of proof courts examine in analyzing privilege protection and practical steps for maximizing the protection; (5) basic work product principles, including the "litigation," "anticipation," and "motivation" elements; (6) identifying who is outside privilege protection, including clients' and lawyers' agents and consultants; (7) privilege waiver, including implied, "at issue" and subject matter waivers; (8) joint defense and common interest agreements and their unpredictability; (9) work product waiver, which dramatically differs from privilege waiver; (10) privilege and work product issues arising before, during and after internal corporate investigations.

Educational Objectives:
• Understand the critical differences between the attorney-client privilege and the work product doctrine.
• Learn about the surprising narrowness and fragility of the attorney-client privilege.
• Discover the nuances of privilege protection in a corporate setting.
• Find out about the great risks involved in relying on common interest/joint defense agreements.

Who would benefit most from attending this program?
Every lawyer must be familiar with the attorney-client privilege. Although litigators primarily deal with the work product doctrine, every lawyer should also know the advantages and disadvantages of that separate, but related, protection.

FREE!

CLE Credit: 1.50 unit - Ethics

 December 9, 2014 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PT

For more information follow the link below:

http://www.bna.com/encore-attorneyclient-privilege-w17179911534/?utm_source=lpc_Update&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=webinars112114