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If a lawyer knows about ongoing or future crimes, they are not shielded and that information loses privilege. They only get privilege for past crimes. They have

• rawgabbit 1y ago
  And your point is? Furthermore, this article from Georgetown defines this exception to the attorney client privilege more narrowly. https://www.law.georgetown.edu/american-criminal-law-review/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2023/04/60-2_Parisi_Shedding-Light.pdf https://www.law.georgetown.edu/american-criminal-law-review/... To invoke the crime-fraud exception, the party seeking disclosure of an adver- sary’s attorney-client communications “must make a prima facie showing (1) the client was committing or intending to commit a fraud or crime, and (2) the attor- ney-client communications were in furtherance of that alleged crime or fraud.”