In a rare opinion on derivative litigation issues, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on January 23 reversed a lower court decision to reject the “good cause” exception to attorney-client privilege as set ...

While the question of what discovery is permitted in litigation involving the Employment Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) after the Supreme Court’s decision in MetropolitanLife Ins. Co v. Glenn, ...

A newly proposed AICPA ethics rule would clarify that certain reviews of a tax practice are included in the exceptions to the AICPA Professional Standards prohibition on disclosing confidential client ...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit recently held that the testamentary exception to the attorney-client privilege does “not grant the deceased client the power to waive a privilege held ...

As in most things, there are limits. Law, like life itself, is not a bacchanal without exception or constraint. While rules are not exactly made to be broken, most rules are girded with a corset ...

The Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) ruled in a 7-2 decision on Friday that an exception to solicitor-client privilege may be available to lawyers to fully defend themselves against potential criminal ...

In a recent case in the Delaware Court of Chancery involving a suit between the trustee of a trust and the trust's beneficiaries, Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster had to decide whether the ...