The attorney/client privilege: a fond memory of things past an analysis of the privilege following United States v. Anderson.

Single and Repeated Ultra–Rapid Detoxification Prevents Cognitive Impairment in Morphine Addicted Rats: A Privilege for Single Detoxification

Background: Opioids have been shown to affect learning and memory processes. Different protocols of morphine withdrawal can substantially vary in their success to prevent opioid induced impairments of cognitive performance. In the present study, we report the effects of single and repetitive ultra-rapid detoxification (URD) on spatial learning and memory in morphine addicted rats. Methods: Morp...

The Common Interest Doctrine and Disclosures during Negotiations for Substantial Transactions

During negotiations for corporate transactions, each party involved shares non-public information with the other party. Information shared during negotiations is instrumental in assessing the financial and legal risks of doing business. Sometimes, one of the parties discloses communications protected by the attorney-client privilege— such as a patent opinion letter or a memorandum assessing a c...

Testimonial privilege and the problem of death: the Vincent Foster case and beyond.

This article discusses what happens to testimonial privilege following a patient's death. First, the article reviews the concepts of confidentiality and testimonial privilege. Second, the article discusses the case of Jaffe v. Redmond, in which the Supreme Court ruled that testimonial privilege applies to licensed psychotherapists under Rule 501 of the Federal Rules of Evidence. Third, the arti...

The impact of the war over the corporate attorney-client privilege on the business of American health care.

Some Thoughts on Incentives, Rules, and Ethics concerning the Use of Search Technology in E-discovery

In e-discovery, search technology is often used to find documents that are responsive to a request for production, or to identify documents that may be withheld on the basis of attorney-client privilege or work-product protection. In choosing whether or not to employ a particular search methodology, counsel will typically be influenced by various incentives, rules, and ethical considerations, w...