Securities
Sep. 1, 2009
Who Owns Privilege: CFO or Company?
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear its first arguments on a vanguard legal issue in Pasadena Tuesday. The question: Who controls attorney-client privilege when a lawyer represents both a company and an executive?
Daily Journal Staff Writer Corporate lawyers will be watching Tuesday when a three-judge panel of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Pasadena hears its first arguments on a vanguard legal issue. The question before the panel is: Who controls the attorney-client privilege when a corporate lawyer represents both a company and an executive? The matter arises because Broadcom's chief financial officer William J. Ruehle...
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