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Law Practice

Mar. 2, 2010

Inadvertent Disclosure

Today the risk of inadvertently disclosing privileged material is greater than ever. In an e-discovery world where attorneys must review an ever-increasing mass of information before turning over evidence to the other side, errors are inevitable. With these come a knotty legal problem: What should a lawyer do if he or she receives a privileged document by mistake?

California Law

In Rico v. Mitsubishi Motors Corp. (42 Cal. 4th 807 (2007)), the California Suprem...

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