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Attorney-Client Privelege & Email Communications

Are there any reported cases that have held one way or the other that sending confidential attorney-client communications via unencypted email constitutes waiver of either the attorney-client privelege or rights from the attorney work product doctrine?


Asked on 5/07/99, 1:48 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Ken Koury Kenneth P. Koury, Esq.

Re: Attorney-Client Privelege

There are no cases either way. So far it is only a silly theory advanced by attorneys who have little understanding of the subject.

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Answered on 5/07/99, 9:40 pm


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