Attorney Client Privilege For Consultants In Illinois
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1 ABA Model (and Illinois) Rule 4.2 Communication with Person Represented by Counsel provides “in representing a client, a lawyer shall not communicate about the subject of the representation with a person the lawyer knows to be represented by another lawyer in the matter, unless the lawyer has the consent of the ...
Discovery of expert materials in Illinois is more limited than in federal court. Under Rule 201(b)(3), draft reports and communications between counsel and the expert are generally protected from disclosure, with some exceptions.
Illinois common law attorney-client privilege protects “communications which the claimant either expressly made confidential or which he could reasonably believe under the circumstances would be understood by the attorney as such” Garvy v. Seyfarth Shaw LLP, 2012 IL App (1st) 110115, ¶ 30.
Illinois common law attorney-client privilege protects “communications which the claimant either expressly made confidential or which he could reasonably believe under the circumstances would be understood by the attorney as such” Garvy v. Seyfarth Shaw LLP, 2012 IL App (1st) 110115, ¶ 30.
In practice, however, many courts have held that attorney-client privilege generally works to protect communications between the attorney and consultants when: The communication occurs for the purposes of obtaining or dispensing legal advice, and.
In Illinois, the “common interest” doctrine has the capacity to both shield information from certain legal adversaries and to compel the disclosure of privileged information under other circumstances.
The common interest privilege is “an extension of the attorney client privilege.” “It serves to protect the confidentiality of communications passing from one party to the attorney for another party where a joint defense effort or strategy has been decided upon and undertaken by the parties and their respective counsel ...
The common-interest doctrine protects communications made between attorneys when their clients share a common legal interest. It is an exception to the general rule that privileged information shared with third parties generally waives the privilege.