Alex Teu, Waiving the Attorney Client Privilege by Using Third Party File Transfer Providers – Part 1, jumpsend.com

From the Article:

“An interesting question was raised by a Government law department seeking to use LeapFILE to transfer files: does a party lose its right to claim attorney client privilege over a communication otherwise privileged by using a service like LeapFILE to transmit that communication? The rationale for breaking the privilege is that the communication has been shared with a third party (i.e. outside of attorney and client).”

Rule: 3-100

 

Referenced Authority: United States v. Councilman, 2005 WL 1907528 (1st Cir. Aug. 11, 2005),

 

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