Texas Law Firm GCs Watching Georgia Supreme Court Case

ATLANTA – Do communications between lawyers in a law firm and that firm’s general counsel fall under the attorney-client privilege and work product when a dispute arises between the law firm and one of its current clients?

That question is at the center of a dispute currently pending before the Georgia Supreme Court – a dispute that is quietly attracting serious attention from law firm leaders, legal ethics experts and even corporate general counsels in Texas and across the country.