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

Richman, Daniel C.

doi:10.2139/ssrn.968469

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

Daniel C. Richman

Columbia Law School

April 6, 2007

Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 968469

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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.

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Date posted: March 7, 2007

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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: http://ssrn.com/abstract=968469 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.968469

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