Evan Barr on Second Circuit Ruling

On March 23, 2005, Evan Barr’s “Outside Counsel” column was featured in the New York Law Journal.  “Second Circuit Says Government Lawyers Covered by Privilege” addresses the February decision of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, which held that private conversations between the former governor of Connecticut John Rowland and his chief legal officer were protected under the attorney-client privilege from disclosure to a federal grand jury.

By ruling thus, the Second Circuit split with three other circuits, which had recently refused to apply the privilege to government lawyers under similar circumstances, thus setting the issue up for possible US Supreme Court review.

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