(Reuters) - Most of the groups that filed friend-of-the-court briefs last week in a crucial U.S. Supreme Court case about the scope of attorney-client privilege rallied around one limiting principle: ...

The Colorado Supreme Court made it easier on Monday for criminal defense lawyers seeking postconviction relief on behalf of their clients to abandon any claims they wish, even over the client’s ...

January 5, 2023 - A communication must be made for the purpose of legal advice to be protected from disclosure by the attorney-client privilege. If legal advice is not the purpose of the communication ...

The Supreme Court will begin its 2025-26 term on Monday with the justices hearing a case over whether blocking a lawyer from speaking with his client about that client’s testimony during overnight ...

The U.S. Supreme Court will consider whether the Sixth Amendment's right to counsel includes the ability for a lawyer to confer with a client about their testimony during an overnight recess in the ...

The Supreme Court appeared skeptical on Monday of arguments seeking to strike down the limitations a judge can place on what a lawyer can discuss with his client during an overnight recess while the ...

Georgia personal injury lawyers are asking the state's highest court to let them sue rivals accused of illegally soliciting clients as competition increases.

"I think there's something romantic about the idea that a small-town lawyer could argue their way all the way up to the Supreme Court," James Freed said of his attorney, Victoria Ferres. It didn't ...