How To Preserve Attorney-Client Privilege
Video Transcript
Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media
So, it sounds like the traditional attorney-client privilege, which is kind of interesting here, extends to both parties with you.
Bill Leininger – Divorce Mediation Attorney – Sarasota, FL
Yes, because there’s going to be, in the mediation agreement, it will say specifically, you know, will deal with confidentiality. And that’s why we have to have a specific understanding. Some mediators say, everything you tell me in caucus, you’re agreeing that I can tell your spouse, unless you specifically say, don’t tell them… ABC.
Others will say, it’s just the opposite. I will not tell your spouse anything that you shared in caucus session with me, unless you specifically tell me I am allowed to. A lot of people feel a little safer doing that, you know, because it has to be something very specific.
I’ll make a note in my notes here and everything else. And so you understand your spouse may get upset when I tell them that, yes, but we’re not going to get any place unless we bring this up.
Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media
Well, one way it doesn’t, you know, create trust with the person that you’re speaking with. And the other way it does, I mean, I don’t understand why anybody would go the former versus the latter.
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