Sentences with phrase «legal communications between»

(2) All legal communications between a lawyer, student or service - provider at a clinic, student legal aid services society or other entity funded by the Corporation, or any other member, officer or employee of a clinic, student legal aid services society or other entity funded by the Corporation and an applicant for legal aid services are privileged in the same manner and to the same extent as solicitor - client communications.

Not exact matches

Legal costs from the lawsuit by Phills against Saloner and Stanford, and from the intervention of Saloner and Stanford in the divorce case between Phills and Gruenfeld, have surely exceeded $ 2 million by now, and neither case shows any signs of wrapping up soon (in fact, Stanford and Saloner have launched a lawsuit - within - a-lawsuit against Phills over Phills» accessing of his wife's communications with Saloner.).

Investigators looked for communications between Trump and Cohen about the now - infamous tape, NBC News reported, citing a person with knowledge of the legal proceedings.

It's meant to facilitate a larger discussion about improving coordination and communication between organizations and overcoming systemic and legal obstacles.

Cohen's lawyer, Stephen Ryan, said that the raid was «completely inappropriate and unnecessary» and pointed out that attorney - client privilege may shield many of Cohen's files from investigators, a legal concept that protects communication between lawyers and their clients.

Make sure that your agency has a legal team on staff (this streamlines communication between your program coordinator and your legal representatives) that can guide you appropriately through the legal process.

Parents interested in a joint legal custody arrangement should first consider the level of communication between themselves and the child's other parent.

The information collected may also be used to document communications between shop.thebettyrocker.com and The Betty Rocker, Inc. and our online users and to comply with any applicable legal and / or regulatory requirements.

The information collected may also be used to document communications between workouts.thebettyrocker.com and The Betty Rocker, Inc. and our online users and to comply with any applicable legal and / or regulatory requirements.

Clearly invoking Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan is a fairly clear - eyed look at the State of Things in today's Russia, encapsulated in a bitter dispute between hotheaded mechanic Kolia (Alexei Serebriakov)-- who lives in a house overlooking the coastal town with his young wife, Lilya (Elena Liadova), and teenage son by a previous marriage — and the corrupt local mayor who has obtained legal authorization to appropriate Kolia's land and demolish his home to make way for a vaguely described «communications center» for the town.

With the help of a few high - profile media stories and some legal cases, this view has shifted, and now most schools have an acceptable use policy covering all online communications between students, parents and teachers that impact on the school community.

He also labored in the Media & Entertainment industry with Univision Communications, Inc. were he not only provided support to sales, finance and operations, but was the point of contact with Federal regulatory agencies for compliance matters, liaison between in - house legal counsel and local senior management and project manager of most corporate projects for Univision Puerto Rico.

«Family relationship» for the purposes of this offer sharing is a relationship between two people related through a marriage, a common law partnership, or any legal parent - child relationship, who have had direct, voluntary two - way communications

* Emphasizes leadership training and effective management; * Regularly surveys developers to ascertain average industry health and well - being; * Encourages individuals to know their legal rights in their regions; * Promotes communication and information exchange between developers; * Supports developers and studios in their pursuit of effective working practices.

On January 27, 2017, the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund (CSLDF) filed a brief in the District of Columbia federal District Court urging the court to protect the communications between these scientists.

Solicitor - client privilege protects communications between Canadian lawyers and their clients in support of the lawyer - client relationship and the legal system.

One key area where the SFO has sought to redress the balance in its favour is legal professional privilege (LPP): a long - established legal principle which ensures that communications between clients and their lawyers remain confidential, facilitating the frank disclosure of information between them.

In communication between parties in legal matters, the phrase without prejudice is often included.

«The general rule is that executed documents, even those prepared by legal counsel, are not privileged because they exist independently of any prior privileged communication between a client and legal counsel.

In determining the solicitor - client privilege question, Gaul referred to the Supreme Court of Canada's 1980 decision in Solosky v. the Queen drawing upon a definition that confidential communications between a solicitor and client that was inputted into obtaining legal advice was protected, unless that protection was waived.

0738 (JSM), 2001 WL 1154666, at * 2 (S.D.N.Y. 1 October 2001)(finding certain communications between the investigator, who conducted the internal investigation, and in - house and outside counsel are protected by attorney — client privilege because the investigator received legal advice from counsel under circumstances in which the employee under investigation was an executive and litigation was expected if the employee were terminated).

In Upjohn Co. v. United States, 6 the United States Supreme Court held that a company's attorney — client privilege extends to company counsel's communications with employees in certain prescribed circumstances.7 Rather than providing a simple objective test, the Upjohn court instead established five factors to guide courts in determining whether the company's privilege should extend to counsel's communications with its employees: (1) whether the communications were made by employees at the direction of superior officers of the company for the purpose of obtaining legal advice; (2) whether the communications contained information necessary for counsel to render legal advice, which was not otherwise available from «control group» management; (3) whether the matters communicated were within the scope of the employee's corporate duties; (4) whether the employee knew that the communications were for the purpose of the company obtaining legal advice; and (5) whether the communications were ordered to be kept confidential by the employee's superiors, including that the communications were considered confidential at the time and kept confidential subsequent to the interview.8 When these elements are established, courts generally consider communications between company counsel and an employee to be within the scope of the company's attorney — client privilege.9

The consequence of this decision is that any communications between parties and in - house legal are disclosable during competition investigations by the European Commission.

In fact, EU law has found that communications between in - house lawyers and a company's staff don't warrant the protection of legal advice privilege as in - house lawyers are viewed as «insufficiently independent — structurally, hierarchically, and functionally» from their employers.

Legal advice privilege arises over confidential communications between lawyer and client that are created for the sole or dominant purpose of giving or seeking legal advice, even if there is no actual or potential litigaLegal advice privilege arises over confidential communications between lawyer and client that are created for the sole or dominant purpose of giving or seeking legal advice, even if there is no actual or potential litigalegal advice, even if there is no actual or potential litigation.

Whether the charges are the result of a misunderstanding, escalated argument fueled by alcohol or drugs or is a typical form of communication between the two parties, an arrest can be terrifying and lead to even more serious legal ramifications.

Solicitor - client privilege is a long standing principle that is the basis of our legal system and is protected by the constitution, upheld by the Supreme Court of Canada and that safeguards all communications between a potential or actual client and his or her lawyer.

In this sense, legal advice privilege will be limited to communications between the in - house lawyer and a relatively narrow group of people, commonly a board of directors and those within the business specifically authorised to instruct the lawyers and / or seek legal advice on behalf of the company.

The Minister has had a busy week, since he also announced a very broad privacy and data protection law: «every individual shall have a right to his privacy — confidentiality of communication made to, or, by him — including his personal correspondence, telephone conversations, telegraph messages, postal, electronic mail and other modes of communication; confidentiality of his private or his family life; protection of his honour and good name; protection from search, detention or exposure of lawful communication between and among individuals; privacy from surveillance; confidentiality of his banking and financial transactions, medical and legal information and protection of data relating to individual.»

Mediators like accountants plainly fall outside the protection of legal professional privilege, which attaches to communications between lawyers and their clients by virtue of the status of the lawyer as such, rather than merely because a person is giving legal advice.

Recommind, a software vendor with several e-discovery products, last week released the results of a survey showing that collaboration and communication between corporate legal departments and IT departments is on the wane.

The new launch also utilizes Passport's workflow and automated notifications to enhance collaboration and improve communication between legal staff and internal stakeholders.

[A] ll communications between a solicitor and his client relating to a transaction in which the solicitor has been instructed for the purpose of obtaining legal advice will be privileged, notwithstanding that they do not contain advice on matters of law or construction, provided that they are directly related to the performance by the solicitor of his professional duty as legal adviser of his client.

Communications between an individual and an ILA will of course be protected by legal advice privilege.

In Formica Ltd v. Export Credits Guarantee Department [1995] 1 Lloyd's Rep 692, 699 Colman J framed the issue in the following terms: «The protection by common interest privilege of documents in the hands of someone other than the client must pre-suppose that such third party has a relationship with the client and the transaction in question which, in relation to the advice or other communications, brings that third party within that ambit of confidence which would prevail between the legal adviser and his immediate client....

Notwithstanding frequent misconceptions to the contrary, litigation privilege has no application to communications between lawyer and client, even where litigation is anticipated or has actually commenced: such communications will always fall within the ambit of legal advice privilege.

Communications between «the various legal advisers of the client» with a view to the client obtaining legal advice or assistance will generally be privileged.

I am also entirely satisfied that, in the words of Taylor LJ in [Balabel] the two types of ESG High Level Documents [i.e. tabular memoranda informing and updating the ESG on the progress, status and issues arising in the regulatory investigations and; confidential notes / summaries drafted by Clifford Chance concerning the discussions between the ESG and its legal advisers at the ESG meetings] form part of «a continuum of communication and meetings» between Clifford Chance and RBS, the object of which was the giving of legal advice as and when appropriate.

Legal advice privilege is concerned with communications between lawyer and client for the purpose of giving or receiving legal advice or assistance, [3] in both the litigation and the non-litigious conLegal advice privilege is concerned with communications between lawyer and client for the purpose of giving or receiving legal advice or assistance, [3] in both the litigation and the non-litigious conlegal advice or assistance, [3] in both the litigation and the non-litigious context.

Danny Talbot discusses the challenges his firm faced when it wanted to replace an inefficient, homemade file management system and how Legal Files is now the firm's «all - in - one» system, making it easier to serve clients from two office location and streamline the communication process between employees.

There are three major types of privilege that parties to a family action might encounter: The first is privilege enjoyed by communication relating to legal advice between solicitor and client.

In contrast to the duty of confidentiality, the attorney - client privilege is the evidentiary principle that confidential communications between attorneys and their representatives and clients and their representatives and even prospective clients that are made for the purpose of obtaining or rendering legal advice, and not in furtherance of a crime or fraud, can not be compelled.

The attorney - client privilege protects only confidential communications between attorney and client that are made to facilitate the rendition of legal services.

Moreover, just weeks after St. Simons and RFF were decided, the ABA House of Delegates passed a resolution urging all «federal, state, tribal, territorial and local legislative, judicial and other governmental bodies» to support applying the attorney - client privilege to protect from disclosure «confidential communications between law firm personnel and their firms» designated in - house counsel made for the purpose of the rendition of professional legal services to the law firm» and to reject any claim that conflict of interest principles or the «fiduciary exception» undermine that claim of privilege.

It raises a fundamental question: are law firms like ordinary businesses, which may protect as privileged communications between employees and in - house lawyers seeking legal advice, or does lawyers» status as fiduciaries for their clients mean those communications should be treated differently?

We know that effective communication between our legal team and our clients is a key factor in securing a successful outcome.

Privileged documents are those that fall under the protections of attorney - client privilege, a legal concept that protects certain communications between a client and his or her attorney and keeps those communications confidential, even when they contain information relevant to the legal matter.

In Romania, legal privilege protects confidential communication between a lawyer and client, if the communications relate to the seeking and receiving of legal advice.

An opinion piece for the Times on the need to protect confidential communications between lawyer and client (Legal Professional Privilege), and why that can sometimes trump the principle of open justice.

That said, the system will not necessarily cut out lawyers when needed for more value - added input and instead may actually help communications between funds and legal advisers, as well as other parties such as accountants and other professionals involved in fund oversight.