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title: 'WEBINAR – Attorney-Client Privilege and Dual-Purpose Advice: Convincing Courts to Maintain Confidentiality'
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date: '2022-09-27T23:06:16+00:00'
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# WEBINAR – Attorney-Client Privilege and Dual-Purpose Advice: Convincing Courts to Maintain Confidentiality

![](https://www.fmjlaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Webinar-Header-3-1024x351.png)

## Tuesday, October 11, 2022

## 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. (CST)

FMJ Attorneys [Pat Shriver](https://www.fmjlaw.com/professional/ernest-pat-shriver/) and [Brad Hutter](https://www.fmjlaw.com/professional/bradley-r-hutter/) are presenting a webinar/CLE to address the issue of “mixed” or “dual-purpose” communications between clients and counsel. Most business clients expect their lawyers to serve as business advisors as well as legal advisors. In today’s competitive legal market, most lawyers are eager to oblige them. However, meeting this client expectation is not without its perils. By mixing business advice or information into legal communications, lawyers or their clients may turn those communications into “dual-purpose” documents, thereby jeopardizing their privileged status.

The issue of “dual-purpose” or “mixed” documents and communications is being **litigated with more frequency**, and it affects litigators and transactional attorneys alike. As transactional lawyers communicate with clients outside of litigation or in pre-litigation contexts, they must understand and abide by the rules that courts will apply as they assess privilege claims over those communications in subsequent litigation. Pat Shriver and Brad Hutter will explain how to identify dual-purpose communications.  They will also discuss the different state court approaches to applying the attorney-client privilege, review different approaches used in the federal courts and address the current circuit split, and provide a roadmap for litigators.

Please [click here](https://www.straffordpub.com/products/attorney-client-privilege-and-dual-purpose-advice-convincing-courts-to-maintain-confidentiality-2022-10-11) for more information about the program and to register.  

In addition, please see Brad Hutter’s article entitled: *[“Mixed Messages:” The Perils of Mixing Business and Legal Information in Attorney-Client Communications](https://www.fmjlaw.com/mixing-business-and-legal-attorney-client-communications/)*.

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