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Email On February 25 and March 26, 2013, two federal district courts refused to find a broad waiver of the attorney-client privilege in the face of extrajudicial disclosures of privileged communications. In both decisions, the courts reasoned that extrajudicial disclosures of privileged communications should result in a waiver of the attorney-client privilege only where fairness compels such a result. A fairness inquiry, however, is highly fact-specific and subjective, and there is no guarantee that a court will find an absence of waiver. (In each case, the courts ultimately concluded that fairness did not warrant a waiver beyond the materials that actually were disclosed because they were not offered in the underlying actions.) The lesson learned, of course, is that companies should avoid the issue altogether by guarding against extrajudicial, or other, disclosures of their privileged communications in the first instance. https://www.cadwalader.com/resources/clients-friends-memos/tempting-fate-two-recent-federal-decisions-apply-fairness-test-to-protect-attorney-client-privilege-in-face-of-extrajudicial-disclosures