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Visibility Rankings  | | #1 out of 25,353 lawyers in Chicago, Illinois | | #83 out of 890,538 total lawyers Overall |
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| Practice Areas | Civil and Criminal Litigation; Government Contracting Litigation; Insurance Coverage Litigation; Reinsurance; Arbitration; International Arbitration; Professional Liability Litigation; Business Litigation | | | Peer Review Rating | AV
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What's this? | | | Education | University of Michigan, J.D., cum laude, 1986, Georgetown University, A.B., cum laude, 1983 | | | Admitted | 1986, Illinois; U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois including Trial Bar; U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit; U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan; U.S. Court of Federal Claims | |
| Memberships | Chicago Bar Association; American Bar Association; International Bar Association; ARIAS. | | | Born | February 11, 1961 | | | Biography | Alpha Sigma Nu; Pi Sigma Alpha. Author or Co-Author: Testimonial Privileges, 3d ed. (Thomson West 2005) (update through 2008); "Protecting Confidential Legal Information: A Handbook for Analyzing Issues under the Attorney-Client Privilege and the Work Product Doctrine," Jenner & Block, 2008; "Special Committees and Protecting Privilege - The Delaware Chancery Court Weighs In," The Corporate Counselor, March 2008; "Reinsurance 201 - Discovery of Privileged Communications Between Insurers and Their Reinsurers," Coverage, November/December 2006; "Legal Privilege in the United States," Chapter 21 in Privilege and Confidentiality: An International Handbook, International Bar Association, 2006; "Transparency in Financial Reporting Without Waving a Corporation's Privileges," Bloomberg Corporate Law Journal, Winter 2006; "Tight Spot: Waiver of Privileges," The Deal, April 5, 2004; "All in One: Waiver Through Disclosure to the Government," The Daily Deal, April 5, 2004; "Protecting Confidential Legal Information: A Handbook for Analyzing Issues Under the Attorney-Client Privilege and the Work Product Doctrine," Jenner & Block, 2008; "Selective Waiver of Privileges," For The Defense, December 2002; "The Surprising Viability Of The Self-Critical Analysis Privilege In Illinois Federal Courts," ISBA Trial Briefs, Vol. 46, No. 5, April 2001. | | | ISLN | 906887804 | |
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Defendant's Former Attorney Could Act as Government InformantDavid M. Greenwald, September 19, 2008 In United States v. Hoffecker, 530 F.3d 137 (3d Cir. 2008), the appellate court upheld the district court's ruling that a former attorney properly could act as a government informant against his former client.
Disclosure Waived Privilege despite Government Confidentiality AgreementDavid M. Greenwald, September 19, 2008 In In re Mutual Funds Investment Litigation, --- F.R.D ---, 2008 WL 2738096 (D. Md. July 7, 2008), the court held that disclosure to the government waived the attorneyclient privilege and work product protection despite a "non-waiver" confidentiality agreement with the government.
Disclosure to Government Waived Work Product ProtectionDavid M. Greenwald, September 19, 2008 In Bank of America, N.A. v. Deloitte & Touche LLP, No. 06-2218-BLS1, 2008 WL 2423265 (Mass. Super. June 13, 2008), the court held that disclosure of an internal investigation report to the SEC in response to a subpoena, and in the absence of a joint prosecution or common interest agreement,...
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