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Keseys Ghost Donating Member (649 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-11-06 08:06 PM
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All you lawyers: They violated your attorney-client confidentiality
All of your office phone records in the government's hands?

Think about it....


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joemurphy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-11-06 08:12 PM
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1. Yup...Add to it all the confidences between accountants and
clients, physicians and patients, and newsmen and sources. Add everyone that does phone sex. Add anyone calling girl friends or mistresses. Add politicians talking to lobbyists too.
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TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-11-06 08:14 PM
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2. You can bet a LOT of people are thinking about this today.
Attorneys, whistleblowers, reporters, bookies, ...me...
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madmark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-11-06 08:26 PM
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3. i dont think so; the fact of the occurence of the communication is not
subject to privilege, its the communication itself. I can ask in a deposition or trial if a party had communicated with their lawyer; I cannot ask about the content of the communication (well i can ask; but they have the right to refuse answer and invoke the privilege).
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Keseys Ghost Donating Member (649 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-11-06 08:30 PM
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4. Do you really believe they aren't selectively listening?
They only admit the violations as they get caught?

Further, does the government really have the right to electronically tail me as I investigate a case when it is the government which has brought charges against my client?

The contact itself is revealing....

And what they are doing is against the law.

Plain and simple.
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madmark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-11-06 09:04 PM
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5. what they are doing may violate a law(s); but if they are not actually
tapping the attorney-client communications, there is no violation of the attorney-client privilege.
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