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It gets hairy if the person they're being asked to testify about is a client because that implicates the attorney/client privilege, which the article mentions.
by jstalin 14y ago
It gets hairy if the person they're being asked to testify about is a client because that implicates the attorney/client privilege, which the article mentions.
- bediger4000 14y agoThe attorney-client privilege is most zealously defended, no? http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=976478 http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=976478 And the complexity of copyright law is really astounding: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1136372 http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1136372
- Symmetry 14y agoBut who is the client in this case? In theory it's "Alan Cooper" but is there actually an Alan Cooper who is the client to be the beneficiary of that privilege?
- DannyBee 14y agoAt some point, they will need to prove this person exists, or else the court is likely to strip the privilege. After all, otherwise as a lawyer you could just avoid testifying about anything ever, by claiming you have this client you see, and well, he told me things about this, and thus it's privileged.