{"id":1744,"date":"2005-09-08T00:01:13","date_gmt":"2005-09-08T00:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1744"},"modified":"2005-09-08T00:01:13","modified_gmt":"2005-09-08T00:01:13","slug":"the_squeezing_o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1744","title":{"rendered":"The Squeezing of Lawyer\/Client Privilege"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/09\/07\/business\/07privilege.html?ex=1283745600&#038;en=170e0ec948cdfb3d&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss\">Jonathan D. Glater<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Prosecutors say that they usually do not seek to learn what advice a lawyer provides to a client, but are trying only to learn the facts. In an interview in 2003, James B. Comey, a former United States attorney, said, &#8220;They are just seeking the facts, including factual attorney work product.&#8221; Lawyers for former KPMG partners have already excoriated the firm&#8217;s cooperation and, in particular, its acknowledgment of wrongdoing, contending that the firm did not undertake a thorough internal investigation to justify such a statement. (The statement is unlikely to be admitted in evidence in the criminal case against the former partners, though, lawyers said, and, in any event, it does not identify specific wrongdoers.)<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan D. Glater: Prosecutors say that they usually do not seek to learn what advice a lawyer provides to a client, but are trying only to learn the facts. In an interview in 2003, James B. Comey, a former United States attorney, said, &#8220;They are just seeking the facts, including factual attorney work product.&#8221; Lawyers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}