Legal privilege and professional secrecy—international Q&A guides

The Lexology Getting the Deal Through (GTDT) guides provide up-to-date, trusted and reliable information on key topics of law and regulation in various jurisdictions, based on contributions from thousands of leading practitioners around the world. In the case of legal privilege and professional secrecy, the Guides offers important legal insight into the protection embodied in legal privilege and professional secrecy in various jurisdictions, including the United States, Japan, Germany, France and England and Wales. In doing so, it addresses various issues, including the extent to which attorney-client communications and work-product are protected from disclosure, any limitations on this protection, ways in which privilege may be waived, the extent to which privilege may be extended in the context of in-house counsel, agents, employees, etc.