Title
Return to Sender? Inadvertent Disclosure of Privileged Information
Abstract
A 1992 ABA Ethics Opinion directs lawyers not to read privileged information inadvertently sent by an adversary or other attorney. But the ethical obligations all lawyers owe to the courts and to their own clients conflict with that opinion. A better rule would hold that information does not remain privileged after it has been voluntarily transmitted to an opposing lawyer.
Disciplines
Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility
Date of this Version
August 2004
Recommended Citation
Richard J. Heafey, "Return to Sender? Inadvertent Disclosure of Privileged Information" (August 17, 2004). bepress Legal Series. bepress Legal Series.Working Paper 338.
https://law.bepress.com/expresso/eps/338
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