Attorney-Client Privilege

Attorney-Client Privilege

Review the attorney-client privilege, which provides protection from disclosure of attorney-client communications, and learn the purposes of the privilege, its elements, and how it may be broken.

Transcript

Throughout our previous tutorials, we have touched on the idea of confidentiality and a lawyer’s obligation to keep a client’s information private. In certain circumstances, those communications may obtain an additional confidentiality protection known as the attorney-client privilege. When a communication meets certain elements it has the privilege of being completely protected from disclosure, even when specifically sought during discovery. In this clip we will discuss the purpose of the...