All Articles tagged confidentiality

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  February 28, 2019 EDT
  TOO MUCH SUN CAN BURN: REASSESSING PUBLIC ACCESS TO CONFIDENTIAL EMPLOYMENT SETTLEMENT AGREEMENTS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION
  Mark A. Paige

  This article contends that the current legislative and judicial presumption in most states that such agreements are completely open to inspection should be revised for several reasons.

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  April 15, 2018 EDT
  CLIENTS, COUNSEL, AND SPOUSES: CASE STUDIES AT THE UNCERTAIN JUNCTION OF THE ATTORNEY-CLIENT AND MARITAL PRIVILEGES
  Jared S. Sunshine

  This article highlights the uncertainties faced by attorneys when mutliple forms of privilege are implicated.

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  March 23, 2015 EDT
  QUID LEGES SINE MORIBUS VANAE PROFICIENT: A BALANCING APPROACH TO THE POSTMORTEM APPLICATION OF THE ATTORNEY-CLIENT PRIVILEGE
  Kevin J. Maggio

  This article argues that where the balance favors disclosure of the confession, the court should permit disclosure of this otherwise confidential information.

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  January 01, 2010 EDT
  ETHICS OF LAWYER SOCIAL NETWORKING
  Steven C. Bennett

  This article addresses some of the ethics issues lawyers may face when they use social networking tools.

• General
  January 01, 2006 EDT
  NEW YORK’S IMMEDIATE NEED FOR A PSYCHOTHERAPIST-PATIENT PRIVILEGE ENCOMPASSING PSYCHIATRISTS, PSYCHOLOGISTS, AND SOCIAL WORKERS
  Rebecca S. Auerbach

  This article argues that New York must replace these three evidentiary privileges--physician, psychologist and social worker--with a single psychotherapist-patient privilege.