{"id":247,"date":"2019-04-15T11:38:32","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T15:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businesslitigationtrends.com\/?p=247"},"modified":"2020-09-24T02:32:26","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T06:32:26","slug":"legal-intelligencer-attorney-client-privilege-and-abuse-of-privilege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khflaw.com\/news\/legal-intelligencer-attorney-client-privilege-and-abuse-of-privilege\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Intelligencer: Attorney-Client Privilege and Abuse of Privilege"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the April 11, 2019 edition of The Legal Intelligencer, Edward Kang, Managing Member of Kang Haggerty wrote &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/thelegalintelligencer\/2019\/04\/11\/attorney-client-privilege-and-abuse-of-privilege\/\">Attorney-Client Privilege and Abuse of Privilege<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The attorney-client privilege, the oldest evidentiary privilege known to the common law, is an exception to one of the main policies behind the paramount rule of evidence that relevant evidence is admissible at trial. In this regard, the attorney-client privilege is an obstruction to the search for the truth. The privilege protects confidential attorney-client communications made for the purposes of obtaining legal advice. While many attorney-client communications are confidential, they are not privileged unless they were made for obtaining legal advice. The attorney-client privilege is designed to facilitate free attorney-client communications without the fear of unwanted disclosure so that clients can receive competent legal advice from their lawyers. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.khflaw.com\/news\/legal-intelligencer-attorney-client-privilege-and-abuse-of-privilege\/#more-247\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the April 11, 2019 edition of The Legal Intelligencer, Edward Kang, Managing Member of Kang Haggerty wrote &#8220;Attorney-Client Privilege and Abuse of Privilege.&#8221; The attorney-client privilege, the oldest evidentiary privilege known to the common law, is an exception to one of the main policies behind the paramount rule of evidence that relevant evidence is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[480,414],"tags":[111,336],"coauthors":[535],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-litigation-and-dispute-resolution","category-publications","tag-attorney-client-privilege","tag-legal-intelligencer","publication_lawyer-edward-t-kang"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Legal Intelligencer: Attorney-Client Privilege and Abuse of Privilege &#8212; Kang Haggerty News &#8212; April 15, 2019<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In the April 11, 2019 edition of The Legal Intelligencer, Edward Kang, Managing Member of Kang Haggerty wrote &quot;Attorney-Client Privilege and Abuse of &#8212; April 15, 2019\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.khflaw.com\/news\/legal-intelligencer-attorney-client-privilege-and-abuse-of-privilege\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Legal Intelligencer: Attorney-Client Privilege and Abuse of Privilege &#8212; Kang Haggerty News &#8212; April 15, 2019\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In the April 11, 2019 edition of The Legal Intelligencer, Edward Kang, Managing Member of Kang Haggerty wrote &quot;Attorney-Client Privilege and Abuse of &#8212; April 15, 2019\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.khflaw.com\/news\/legal-intelligencer-attorney-client-privilege-and-abuse-of-privilege\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Kang Haggerty News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-04-15T15:38:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-09-24T06:32:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.khflaw.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/KHFSocial.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"250\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"250\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Edward T. 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