«The L.A Unified School District will offer its full cooperation to federal
authorities during the course of the investigation,» L.A. schools Interim Superintendent Ramon Cortines said in a statement.
If the privilege is inapplicable or unclear, counsel should, initially, be aware that communications pertaining to their clients that were generated
during the
course of an internal
investigation under the direction and supervision
of in - house counsel, as opposed to locally licensed external counsel, may not be privileged and may be subject to discovery by
authorities and third parties.73 Privilege protections may also not apply to documents and communications generated
during internal
investigations under the direction or supervision
of an internal or external compliance or audit team.