McDowell & Colantoni, 282 Ill. App. 3d 236, 238-39 (Ill. 1st Dist. 1996) (attorney who misappropriated client funds for personal use pleaded guilty to federal mail fraud charges and was disbarred).

Also, clients often think that if they include an attorney as a recipient of any email, then the email automatically qualifies for the attorney-client privilege. Actually, that is not true at all.

Two days later, Eastman filed a complaint asserting that the documents were protected by President Trump's attorney-client privilege, as well as by the work product doctrine, and that President ...

The New York State Lawyers' Fund for Client Protection announced Tuesday that it has so far awarded $9.8 million in 2022 to 133 clients swindled by their attorneys. In the final months of the year ...

The Lawyers' Fund for Client Protection awarded a total of $75,267 in trust money, with 10 of those awards stemming from lawyers who were paid a fee but failed to do any of the services promised.

COLUMBUS − The Board of Commissioners of the Lawyers’ Fund for Client Protection recently reimbursed $465,462.39 to 18 victims of attorney theft. Three former or suspended Ohio attorneys were ...

Attorney-client privilege protection lasts forever, but determining work product doctrine protection’s duration presents a more subtle analysis. Most courts protect work product if it is sought ...