Attorney–client privilege

They would examine whether he ever questioned unusual transfers, refused transactions, or asked for supporting documentation.

They would also determine which communications were legitimately protected by attorney-client privilege and which involved ordinary business activity rather than legal advice.

Because Indyke operated at the intersection of Epstein's legal and financial structure, separating those functions would be one of the most complicated parts of the investigation.

And of course, privilege would consequently become a battlefield almost immediately.

An attorney's communications with a client are not automatically available to investigators merely because the attorney handled financial affairs.

But attorney-client privilege generally protects confidential legal communications.

Not every business transaction performed by someone who happens to be a lawyer.

Investigators would therefore classify indict's activity transaction by transaction.

Introduction.

The defendant argues Ms. Roberts and two of her attorneys, Cassell and Edwards, have somehow placed at issue her confidential attorney-client communications and therefore have made a sweeping waiver of attorney-client privilege in this case.

Defendant, however, fails to cite the controlling law on this issue.

Federal Rule of Evidence 502.

Enacted in 2008, Rule 502 was designed to block exactly the kind of argument the defendant is making.

Rule 502 provides the litigants are entitled to the most protective laws on attorney-client privilege, either state law where the disclosure was made or federal law.

The alleged disclosures in this case were made in Florida and under Florida law did not constitute any waiver of attorney-client privilege.

Indeed, defendant does not reveal to the court that the Florida judge who handled the case during which the alleged waivers occurred, the Dershowitz case, has already considered and rejected their entirety, the very argument that defendant is advancing here.

I'll tell you what, Richard, you send me the information, I will promise to follow up on it and see what I can find out.

Because I don't know how, if they had a report, what was the agency that did the report on the Gap Fire that's called Attorney-Client Privilege?

It would be the investigating arm in Vallejo, California.

And our district attorney in Siskiyou County contacted them.