Re: Legal outsourcing and US government surveillance - blows attorney-client privilege?

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 03:56:15PM -0400, Carol Shepherd wrote:
> Looking for opinions on the intersection of attorney-client privilege
> and government monitoring of commercial communications between US firms
> and offshore service providers.  A DC law firm has sued the government


(without reading the article, well, I skimmed it *very* briefly) Is the firm either 1) not encrypting the data end-to-end or 2) claiming the government can/does break the encryption to read and analyze the data?  I believe a law firm has a duty to use reasonable means to protect the attorney-client priv and to not encrypt the data with strong encryption would, IMHO, constitute a breach of that duty.

I am going to include the phone conversations between lead attys in the US and the reviewers in India as something that ought to be encrypted.  

K

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