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Attorney-Client Privilege

Thursday, April 7, 2011 by Mark P. Lang

I read a Supreme Court case in this week’s Florida Law Weekly that affirmed as inviolate the attorney-client privilege, which protects statements, and distinguished it from the work product doctrine, which protects documents.  However, the Court noted that the attorney-client privilege only protects statements necessary to obtain legal advice.  In other words, you cannot just tell anything to a lawyer and assume it will not be disclosed.

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