In-House Counsel and the Attorney-Client Privilege

Surveys Download pdf August 2007

This Lex Mundi multi-jurisdictional survey presents a country-by-country overview of the availability of protection from disclosure of communications between in-house counsel and the officers, directors or employees of the companies they serve. Each Lex Mundi member firm was asked to describe briefly the applicability of the attorney-client privilege to communications with in-house counsel in its jurisdiction. The summaries presented below -- covering virtually all of the jurisdictions of the world -- address the following questions: Are communications between in-house counsel and officers, directors and employees of the company they serve privileged? If so, are there limitations on the privilege? If not privileged in and of themselves, are there alternative methods of protecting the information?

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