Drafting Joint Defense Agreements: Protecting the Privilege, Sharing Work Product, Avoiding Disqualification
Outline
- Considerations before entering a joint defense agreement
- Advantages and disadvantages
- Cost
- Participants
- What information to share
- Settlement issues
- Joint defense agreement
- Key provisions
- Provisions concerning disclosure
- Ethical considerations
- Conflicts of interest and potential disqualification
- Protecting privileged information
- Ethics opinions addressing joint defense