Today, corporations routinely conduct internal investigations, often inside and outside the United States, and those investigations serve a multitude of different purposes. In many circumstances, the corporation intends to conduct the investigation in such a way that communications will be protected by the attorney-client privilege and/or the attorney work product doctrine. Waiver of those protections, however, remains a possibility if the investigation isn’t designed and conducted with an eye to preserving privileges.
In this program, Jones Day partners Evan P. Singer, Joshua S. Roseman and Arielle S. Tobin will discuss –