Ethics/Professional Responsibility
May 21, 2013
Night of the Living Dead, Inc.: indefinite corporate existence and the attorney-client privilege
The attorney-client privilege ends when there is no longer anyone to hold it. But for California corporations, there is no unambiguous end to a corporation's existence.
Julian Y. Waldo
Supreme Court of California
Amy L. Bomse
Shareholder, Rogers Joseph O'Donnell, PC
Duke Univ SOL; Durham NC
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As the Supreme Court has reminded us recently, corporations are in many ways like natural persons. But here's a way that corporations - at least California corporations - are different from you and me. Even when they die (dissolve), they don't real...
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