What is Attorney-Client Privilege?
A protection that keeps confidential communications between a lawyer and client, made to get legal advice, from being forced into evidence. Sharing them with outsiders can waive it, so where an AI tool sends data matters.
advice letter · never shared · held back
Attorney-client privilege protects…
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Aisha kept the client's email out of the public chatbot, worried that sharing it with an outside service could waive attorney-client privilege.
In the illustration
A demand tray slides in through the hatch and the shelf's business records are pulled across. The advice letter between lawyer and client stays latched, its paper band unbroken: no outsider has read it.
Sort these ten practice emails in your legal AI tool by whether attorney-client privilege likely applies: say who is talking, whether legal advice is the purpose, and who else was copied. Mark any you are unsure about for a lawyer.
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