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attorney-client privilege

n. (context legal English) A legal doctrine that protects certain confidential communications between a lawyer and his or her clients.

WordNet
attorney-client privilege

n. the right of a lawyer to refuse to divulge confidential information from his client

Usage examples of "attorney-client privilege".

And there were complicated issues of attorney-client privilege with an open mike in a law office.

Morse has decided that the material I gave you is bound by attorney-client privilege and won't go to the police.

As such, anything said by you in this room is subject to the attorney-client privilege.

So far, I could be quoted back to myself many times, like on the Secret Service privilege, the attorney-client privilege, the dead man's privilege.

I suppose I should be grateful for the attorney-client privilege, or I could become a laughingstock of the whole Boston medical community.

I may have been working for free, but the payment or non payment of fees did not affect the attorney-client privilege.

I may have been working for free, but the payment or non-payment of fees did not affect the attorney-client privilege.

She was grateful attorney-client privilege with Tereza prevented her from adding to the girl's fears.

Since I can't be your lawyer, there would be no attorney-client privilege.

I expect all our conversations on that subject to be conducted under the attorney-client privilege.

The attorney-client privilege applies, and no country can break that barrier.

Probably didn't trust attorney-client privilege to hold if his lawyer knew what he had in mind ahead of time.

There is a clause that, at least purportedly, makes information that you give us subject to the attorney-client privilege.