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October 15, 2007


White-collar attorney privilege waivers

Through the so-called McNulty memo (earlier coverage), the Department of Justice has made a show of responding to criticism about its arm-twisting of corporate defendants to waive attorney-client privilege in white-collar crime investigations. According to a report to a Senate committee by former Delaware chief justice E. Norman Veasey, however, that effort falls short.

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