The Trial Lawyer's Guide to the Attorney-Client Privilege and Work-Product Doctrine

Table of Contents:

1. The Attorney-Client Privilege
2. The Ethics Rule on Confidentiality and How it Differs from the Attorney-Client Privilege
3. The Work-Product Privilege
4. The Common-Interest or Joint-Defense Privilege
5. Exceptions to Privileges
6. Waiver of Privileges
7. Procedural Tools for Litigating Privileges
8. The Attorney-Client Privilege in Organizations
9. Investigations
10. Patent Matters
11. Litigating Attorney-Client Privileges Under the United States Bankruptcy Code and the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure
12. Communications with Public Relations Consultants
13. Insurance Settings
14. Class Actions
15. Choice of Law Issues