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Winning litigation parties sometimes seek recovery of the money they spent on their lawyers — either as a damage element or under a fee-shifting legal doctrine or contract provision....

Not surprisingly, the Musk-Twitter fast-track Delaware case generated privilege issues. One predictably recognized Musk's unique role in his varied revolutionary enterprises. ...

Last week's Privilege Point summarized a case confirming non-testifying experts' general immunity from discovery — absent "exceptional circumstances" such as destructive testing. Ten...

Many courts address the discovery available from a litigant's testifying experts. Fewer courts assess discovery of a litigant's consultant retained to provide background expertise...

Last week's Privilege Point described a court’s rejection of work product protection for a preprinted post-accident form with seemingly helpful boilerplate language about its purpose...

The work product doctrine has been described by many courts as "intensely practical." Several decisions highlight this understandable adjective, and explicitly provide useful guidance...

Last week's Privilege Point summarized a California federal court decision confirming that California recognizes its privilege in a statute, but then inexplicitly acknowledging that...

Lawyers dealing with attorney-client privilege questions obviously must assess what privilege law applies. Federal courts understandably apply federal privilege common law (essentially...

About d.c. police officer who is corroborating what she said was actually right and actually happened. does that fall in the same line with the ideas of speak no evil, sort of the fight club mentality? >> look, at the end of the day, to the privilege point, we actually want these privileges to exist. i want my president to be able to speak to his senior aides in sort of comfort and secrecy and be able to do the business of government. you want secret service agents to keep their mouth shut about...

Here, like look, i need to have candid conversations with my advisers, thats different than a person whose jobs it is to make sure theres no threat to the president of the united states of america. but how about this motorcade incident though? were also hearing about d.c. police officer who is corroborating what you said was actually right? and actually happen. is that fall under the same line of speak no evil, sort of a fight club mentality. >> look, at the end of the day, that to the privilege...