This article discusses whether employer email systems protect attorney-client confidentiality. Courts consider company policies, monitoring, and employee awareness to determine if privilege applies.

AI use is forcing the profession to grapple with a new question: can privilege be maintained over information that enters an AI prompt box?

Attorney-client privilege is one of the most important protections in the legal system. Its powerful legal protection allows clients to speak freely and candidly with their attorneys without fear that ...

For a communication to be protected by the attorney-client privilege, it needs to be confidential, it must be between the attorney and the client, and it must be for the purpose of seeking or ...

Commentary: By choosing to engage with large language models, individuals could be giving up the significant legal protection ...

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more prevalent in the legal sector and corporate operations, its implications for attorney-client privilege should be a rising concern for board members. AI ...

(This article was originally published on October 1, 2025. It was updated on April 7, 2026 to reflect developments in caselaw.) Law firms and legal departments are increasingly using GenAI to ...

Many lawyers across Missouri take exception to how the Sunshine Law's first exception of attorney-client privilege is interpreted. Some say the exception in the state statute granting the public the ...