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[…] Blog (here) said the bill: Prohibits federal prosecutors and investigators across the executive branch from requesting or conditioning charging decisions on an organization’s reasonable assertion of attorney-client privilege or decision to pay attorneys fees for an employee. This bill emphasizes that the right to counsel is chilled unless the confidential communications between attorneys and […]
Zurich-based UBS AG agreed to pay just over $1.7 million to resolve civil allegations that it processed 222 transactions for a client that apparently violated U.S. anti-terrorism sanctions.
[…] in Kazakhstan and Africa — are not protected by legal professional In a landmark ruling, the High Court in London has said that interview notes — made by a company’s external law firm as part of internal investigations into allegations of corruption in Kazakhstan and Africa — are not protected by legal professional privilege.
Alun Milford, SFO General Counsel (image courtesy fo the SFO)In a speech this week to compliance professionals at the European Compliance and Ethics Institute in Prague, the general counsel of the UK Serious Fraud Office talked about attorney-client privilege in connection with SFO corruption investigations.
[…] Attorney’s Manual says everyone was wrong. It says the DOJ never required corporations to give up their rights. It argues, with a straight face, that since the privilege belongs to the company, only the company can choose to give it up. So every waiver is therefore voluntary. Getting back to business, the DOJ pays […]
[…] How does the government measure cooperation? One way has been to look at whether the target agreed to spill the beans on employees by waiving the attorney-client privilege. The Justice Department claims it has never forcibly stripped an organization of the privilege. That’s technically true. As a matter of law only the holder of […]
The English Court of Appeal’s decision in SFO v. ENRC has reset the boundaries of litigation privilege in investigations under English law.
Lawyers: As a group, we think we’re pretty special. Servants of the law and all that. But in truth, there’s really only one thing that sets us apart from other professionals: the attorney-client privilege (yes, yes, we can also represent others in court, but that’s not the point of this post).
The privilege is there to protect the privacy of our most important conversations. It’s a rule of evidence that excludes certain private statements from being used in legal, regulatory, or administrative proceedings.
[…] — 33 former United States Attorneys. A letter they sent to Senator Patrick Leahy (D.,VT), chair of the Judiciary Committee, asked him to support the proposed Attorney-Client Privilege Protection Act known as S. 186. The bill’s purpose is to stop the Justice Department’s practice of pressuring companies to waive the attorney-client privilege. Forcibly stripping […]
