The Town of Front Royal has been directed by a magistrate judge to disclose its communications with its retained attorney on an investigation into harassment claims made by a former town clerk after the former clerk’s motion to compel was ...

Tagged with: Attorney-client privilege Judge Joel Hoppe U.S. District Court - Western District

Former corporate officers sued over an allegedly unlawful online lending scheme could not claim the protection of attorney-client privilege over documents between the company and its counsel, as the privilege was lost when the company changed management. U.S. District Judge ...

Tagged with: Attorney-client privilege Judge M. Hannah Lauck U.S. District Court - Eastern District

An appeal bristling with issues of attorney-client privilege, perilous surveillance technology and the scope of a Virginia “revenge porn” law could be dead in its tracks because the appellant paid off the trial court judgment. The Supreme Court of Virginia ...

Tagged with: Attorney-client privilege Justice D. Arthur Kelsey Supreme Court of Virginia

The Supreme Court of Virginia has been asked to decide whether a divorcing wife violated the state’s “revenge porn” law when she let her lawyer use secretly recorded nude images to question her husband’s girlfriend about adultery. The case marks ...

Tagged with: Attorney-client privilege Divorce Supreme Court of Virginia

Despite a claim of attorney-client privilege, a county government cannot claw back a candid report warning the county about a “male dominated” culture in its fire and rescue department. A federal judge says because Bedford County lawyers waited 40 days ...

Tagged with: Attorney-client privilege Civil Practice Judge Norman K. Moon U.S. District Court - Western District