Decisions about Coercion: The Corporate Attorney-Client Privilege Waiver Problem

36 Pages Posted: 7 Mar 2007

Date Written: April 6, 2007

Abstract

This symposium essay explores the contestable empirical and normative assumptions that underlie criticisms of the Justice Department's policies with respect to the waiver of corporate attorney-client and work-product privileges. And it considers how authority with respect to prosecutorial decisionmaking in this area ought to be allocated.

Suggested Citation

Richman, Daniel C., Decisions about Coercion: The Corporate Attorney-Client Privilege Waiver Problem (April 6, 2007). Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 968469, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=968469 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.968469

Daniel C. Richman (Contact Author)

Columbia Law School ( email )

435 West 116th Street
New York, NY 10025
United States

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