ATTORNEY-CLIENT PRIVILEGE Professor Paul R. Rice

• Attorney-Client Privilege in the United States - reviewed by Mark A. Freeman
• Attorney-Client Privilege in the United States - reviewed by N. William Delker and Lawrence Friedman

Law Review Articles

• A Bad Idea Dying Hard: A Reply to Professor Leslie's Defense of the Indefensible
• Attorney-Client Privilege: The Eroding Concept of Confidentiality Should Be Abolished
• Attorney-Client Privilege: Continuing Confusion About Attorney Communications, Drafts, Pre-Existing Document and the Source of the Facts Communicated (Adobe Acrobat Reader required)
• In-House Counsel: Equal Members of the Bar

• Federal Rules of Evidence Advisory Committee: A Short History of Too Little Consequence
• "Good Enough" is Not Good Enough for Evidence Rules
• E-Mail, I Presume: Authentication Law Needs Updating for the E-Commerce Age
• Strictly Confidential: Magill Ruling Plants A Deceptively Bad Seed in the Law of Attorney-Client Privilege
• Are Partially Privileged Documents Discoverable?
• Rule Changes Raise Questions
• Truth in Test Tubes: Standard for Screening Scientific Evidence is Still Muddled Years After Daubert
• Pitfalls of Privilege:  Misunderstanding Corporate Attorney-Client Privilege Could Make Scapegoats of Employees
• The Corporate Attorney-Client Privilege: Loss of Predictability Does Not Justify Crying Wolfinbarger
• The Government's Attorney-Client Privilege:  Should It Have One?
• Let's Give Credit Where Credit is Due
• The Tax Practicioner Privilege: A Sheep In Wolf's Clothing
• The Special Prosecutor's Latest Challenge to the Attorney-Client Privilege:  Does the Government Have a Privilege When the Grand Jury Calls?
• Attorney-Client Privilege:  Misunderstood and Misapplied as Fundamental Principles are Forgotten
• Virtual Confidences: Using E-Mail to Converse With Clients
• Court to Counsel: Long Live the Privilege
• Should We Make Bruce Lindsey Talk?: Drawing the Parallels Between the Governmental and the Corporate Attorney-Client Privilege
• The Wrong Cure for Privilege Envy:  Congress is Ready to Put Accountants on Par with Tax Lawyers
• How the Tobacco Industry Lost Its Attorney-Client Privilege
• No Good Cause to Kill the Privilege:  Confidences Should Be Kept, Even After The Client Dies
• Field Service Advice Memoranda and the Attorney-Client Privilege
• A Gap in the Privilege This Time: Precedent Supports Starr's Latest Effort to Get Lawyer's Notes
• Up In Smoke: Is Confidentiality No Longer an Essential Element of the Attorney-Client Privilege Protection?
• Privilege Concerns Weren't 'Absurd'
• Grave Concerns: Should Lawyers Be Free to Spin History for Their Departed Clients?
• Our Late Great Secrets?: Multidisciplinary Practice May Undermine, But Need Not Destroy, the Protections of the Attorney-Client Privilege
• The Government's Attorney-Client Privilege:  The Denial of Certiorari in Lindsey Leaves Us in Limbo

• Corporate Attorney-Client Privilege: Study Reveals Corporate Agents are Uniformed; What They Don't Know Can Destroy the Privilege
• Attorney-Client Privilege: Perceptions and Implications in the Corporate Setting (Adobe Acrobat Reader required)
• Attorney-Client Privilege: There is a Limited Protection for Communications Between Attorney and the Attorney's Agents
• Attorney-Client Privilege: Waiver by Disclosure to Agents!
• Attorney-Client Privilege: The Privilege Status of Non-Privileged Pre-Existing Documents Incorporated into Confidential Client Communications
• Attorney-Client Privilege: The Status of Copies of Non-Privileged Documents that are Sent to Counsel for Screening
• Attorney-Client Privilege: The Assertion of Privilege Claims: Substance and Procedure
• Attorney-Client Privilege: Does Sharing Privileged Communications With Government Agencies Waive the Privilege Protection
• Attorney-Client Privilege: The Indirect Recognition of Limited Waiver
• Attorney-Client Privilege: Communications in Preparation for Consulting Corporate Counsel
• Attorney-Client Privilege: Does the Corporation's Privilege Protect Communications Between Corporate Counsel and Former Employees?