The Attorney-Client Privilege and the Work-Product Doctrine has proven to be an invaluable resource for litigators and has been the ABA Section of Litigation's bestseller since publication of the first edition. This newly revised seventh edition, two-volume set, has been updated with the most current developments in attorney-client privilege and work-product protection. A thorough analysis of the following topics is included:
Volume 1: Attorney-Client Privilege
- Purpose, scope, and standing
- Elements; forfeiture or waiver
- Exceptions to application
- Criminal convictions based on attorney testimony
- Survival of the privilege
- International context
- Ethical concerns, constitutional issues, and strategic issues
Volume 2: Work-Product Protection
- Purpose, scope, and procedural matters
- Elements; qualifications on protection
- Protecting attorney's mental impressions
- Waiver and exceptions
- Volume 2: Factors Common to Both Attorney-Client Privilege and Work-Product Protection
- Underlying facts not privilege protected
- Redaction and procedural issues
- Deposing and testifying counsel
- Waiver in government prosecutions or investigations
- Privilege and protection in the electronic age
- Raising both privilege and protection
- Interplay with FOIA
Edna Selan Epstein lives in Chicago, Illinois. She has handled a wide variety of litigated matters, including employment discrimination, pension fraud class actions, medical and legal malpractice, and business torts. Epstein has also represented defendants in criminal cases in the United States District Court. Epstein has taught courses in trial practice and negotiations at NITA, the University of Chicago Law School and IIT-Kent Law School. She has been on any number of panels dealing with a wide range of legal issues and has written articles on various areas of the law.
Epstein is the author of the Attorney-Client Privilege and Work Product Doctrine, which has been in print since 1982. The 6th edition is published in 2017.
