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Focus (Forum & Focus)

Jan. 2, 2008

Stifling Legal Advice

Focus Column - By Carolyn Kubota - The Justice Department's practice of using the attorney-client and work-product privileges as bargaining chips in investigations is leading to a wholesale decline in the quality of lawyers' work.

FOCUS COLUMN

By Carolyn Kubota

      On Sept. 18, 2007, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a complaint charging Tenet Healthcare Corp.'s former general counsel, Christi Sulzbach, with civil violations of the False Claims Act. The complaint seeks penalties and damages that, if trebled as permitted by the False Claims Act, could total in the hundreds of millions of dollars. The Sulzbach complaint is the most recent in a serie...

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