U.S. MapWe’ve written before to remind in-house lawyers that even if you don’t sign pleadings or appear in court on behalf of your corporate employer, you are still practicing law when you give advice and participate in business transactions on your employer’s behalf.  If you do so without being duly licensed, you are straying into unauthorized

Corporate organizationfile cabinet charts increasingly include slots for departments with names like  “risk management,” “claims handling,” and the like.  When lawyers head or staff such departments, does the attorney-client privilege cover their communications with company management?  Not necessarily, says a new opinion from the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Casey v. Unitek Global Services, Inc.

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