The stakes in preserving privilege and protecting work product in an internal investigation have never been higher. The alternative is seeing a company’s most sensitive matters splashed across headlines or in court filings, with often devastating consequences. But the case law has shifted dramatically in the past few years. Courts increasingly entertain challenges to privilege, and government agencies have been particularly successful in leveraging companies’ internal investigations to build enforcement actions or prosecutions against organizations and their employees, regardless of the consequences to the companies’ privilege. In this one-hour webinar, Willkie attorneys Bill Stellmach, Tricia Haynes, and Andrew English discuss key cases governing the scope of privilege during internal and government investigations, and provide best practices for maintaining the privilege over a company’s investigation.
Speakers: William Stellmach, Patricia Haynes, and Andrew English
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This course is approved for credit in the following states:
NY 1.0 CLE Ethics/Professionalism credit (transitional) appropriate for both newly admitted and experienced attorneys
CA 1.0 MCLE Ethics Participatory credit
IL 1.0 MCLE Professional Responsibility credit
TX 1.0 MCLE Accredited Ethics credit
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