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Broken Principle: Solving The Corporate Privilege Waiver Dilemma, Don R. Berthiaume

Don R Berthiaume

How can corporations cooperate in white collar criminal investigations by providing “just the facts” without waiving the attorney client privilege and work product protection? This article provides a unique solution to this vexing problem. This article argues that Rule 30(b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, which allows civil litigants to issue a subpoena to an organization and cause them to “designate one or more officers, directors, or managing agents, or designate other persons who consent to testify on its behalf... about information known or reasonably available to the organization,” provides a template for the creation of a similar …