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“Attachments to Attorney-Client Communications May Be Withheld as Privileged, Without an Independent Basis for Privilege,” But….

E-Discovery LLC

The Linet Americas court described the competing positions: The producing plaintiff, “Linet argues attachments to privileged emails that sought legal advice are also privileged as part of that communication, but it also says 29 of the 33 attachments have been or will be produced ‘as they exist independently of the privileged communications.’”

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Good Help: Non-lawyer Assistants—Human and Virtual

WA Bar News

3 Emerging non-human “virtual” 4 assistants, by contrast, are presently addressed through the rules governing a lawyer’s duties of competence and confidentiality relevant to technology generally—including technological assistants powered by artificial intelligence. lawyers also have a duty to understand the technology they are using.