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Legal outsourcing and US government surveillance - blows attorney-cl   Message List  
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Re: Legal outsourcing and US government surveillance - blows attorney-client privilege?

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 03:56:15PM -0400, Carol Shepherd wrote:
> Looking for opinions on the intersection of attorney-client privilege
> and government monitoring of commercial communications between US firms
> and offshore service providers. A DC law firm has sued the government


(without reading the article, well, I skimmed it *very* briefly) Is the firm
either 1) not encrypting the data end-to-end or 2) claiming the government
can/does break the encryption to read and analyze the data? I believe a law
firm has a duty to use reasonable means to protect the attorney-client priv and
to not encrypt the data with strong encryption would, IMHO, constitute a breach
of that duty.

I am going to include the phone conversations between lead attys in the US and
the reviewers in India as something that ought to be encrypted.

K

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Carol Shepherd
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May 28, 2008
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... (without reading the article, well, I skimmed it *very* briefly) Is the firm either 1) not encrypting the data end-to-end or 2) claiming the government...
Kevin T. Neely
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May 28, 2008
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Every day, here in Washington D.C., scores of privileged legal documents are turned over to unidentified, twenty-something bicycle messengers-- never mind the...
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May 28, 2008
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... I don't think it necessarily waives the evidentiary privilege - but it certainly infringes upon attorney-client confidentiality, which is a related but...
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From: Greg Broiles <gbroiles@...> Date: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 18:34 Subject: Re: [CYBERIA] Legal outsourcing and US government surveillance - blows...
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I'm actually teaching attorney-client privilege this week in professional responsibility. A good analogy is that there are bar opinions saying that the...
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