Your Communications with Your Attorney are Always Privileged… Right? Wrong.
Your communications with your attorney are always privileged… right? Wrong.
While the attorney-client privilege is one of the oldest and most sanctified of privileges, it is not without exceptions. Now adays, when you communicate with a family law attorney, an attorney assisting you with estate planning, or an attorney representing you in a civil case,you are often doing so via email. But you can unintentionally waive the privilege if you communicate with your lawyer from your work email address, or even from a personal email address accessed on your work computer.