Attorney-Client Privilege - RETIRED


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Overview/Description
This course covers the attorney-client privilege that protects communications between attorneys and their clients and ensures their confidentiality. Many corporate businesspeople are not sure of their rights under the attorney-client privilege, and as such risk destroying the privilege and losing their rights. This course defines attorney-client responsibilities and examines how the privilege encourages open and honest communication between attorneys and their clients. This course offers recommendations for using high-tech solutions to protect privileged information, ensuring attorney-client confidentiality. It also examines how recent changes in the anti-money laundering legislation could impact the privilege. Specific applications of the attorney-client privilege to particular circumstances will be determined on the basis of the particular facts of the case, and application of the privilege may vary from one jurisdiction to another. This course provides information about the general concepts of the attorney-client privilege and is not a substitute for legal advice. For any questions concerning the application of the attorney-client privilege in particular circumstances, always consult competent counsel. SkillSoft's Legal Compliance courses are developed and maintained with subject matter support provided by the Labor, Employment, and Employee Benefits Law Group of the law firm of Sheehan Phinney Bass + Green PA.

Target Audience
Supervisors, managers, IT employees, HR employees

Expected Duration (hours)
1.0

Lesson Objectives

The Attorney-Client Relationship

  • recognize the benefits to the individual client of the attorney-client privilege.
  • identify how the attorney-client privilege is applied to a corporation.
  • identify the requirements that must be met in order to establish attorney-client privilege.
  • recognize how to create a good attorney-client working relationship.
  • recognize actions that should be taken to ensure the protection of the corporation's attorney-client privilege in a given scenario.

    • Maintaining Attorney-Client Privileges in a Changing Society

  • identify the possible implications of anti-money laundering legislation on the attorney-client privilege.
  • identify the types of things to consider to ensure the protection of attorney-client privilege in print and digital communications.
  • identify the most secure form of telecommunication for a given attorney-client communication.
  • identify which form of electronic communication is the most secure.
  • identify the benefit for the client of using the most secure technology when communicating with an attorney.

    • Course Number:
    LCO0113