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A team led by Partners David Greenwald and Michele Slachetka published the 2025 edition of the Thomson Reuters treatise Testimonial Privileges, available on Westlaw.

Jenner & Block has published the 2023 edition of Protecting Confidential Legal Information: A Handbook Analyzing Issues under the Attorney-Client Privilege and the Work Product Doctrine, a comprehensive look at issues related to attorney-client privilege and the work product doctrine. First published in 1984, the guide remains one of the firm’s most popular publications and an invaluable resource.

Partner Michele Slachetka, who serves as Jenner & Block’s Associate General Counsel, shared her insight about the risks of breaking privilege in an increasingly digital world. At a CLE during the 2024 Legalweek conference in New York, Michele and other panelists discussed how legal professionals can manage the risk of breaking privilege and offered strategies to protect it. The conversation touched on the following topics:

Jenner & Block has published the 2023 edition of Protecting Confidential Legal Information: A Handbook Analyzing Issues under the Attorney-Client Privilege and the Work Product Doctrine, a comprehensive look at issues related to attorney-client privilege and the work product doctrine. First published in 1984, the guide remains one of the firm’s most popular publications and an invaluable resource.

Jenner & Block Partner Michele L. Slachetka is serving as the Chair of PLI’s Illinois Basic Skills for Newly Admitted Attorneys program this year and Associate Lina R. Powell is co-presenting on “Client Confidentiality, Attorney-Client Privilege, and Work Product Protections.”

Jenner & Block Partners David M. Greenwald and Michele L. Slachetka are lead editors of the 2021 edition of Testimonial Privileges, a comprehensive 1,800-page West treatise covering the attorney-client privilege, the work product doctrine, executive privilege and seven additional testimonial and evidentiary privileges. A number of firm lawyers collaborated on this edition and each of the prior editions since 2005. The 2021 edition contains updates and recent case law on many substantive issues

In this article, Jenner & Block Partner Michele L. Slachetka and Associate Christian Plummer examine the key decisions and trends that have emerged from US courts regarding the discoverability (or lack thereof) of litigation funding materials. Revisiting their previous article, the authors address a discoverability issue unique to the international arbitration space and describe how recent decisions remain consistent with the trends they identified one year ago, “as courts have continued to ta

On June 12, 2020, Jenner & Block Partners Michele L. Slachetka and Ali M. Arain presented a CLE webinar for the New York State Bar Association. They summarized best practices for effectively counseling business and corporations through periods of internal and external crises. They also shared tips and strategies for structuring law firm legal teams, managing communications with corporate clients and public relations teams, and developing a coordinated legal response and strategy in dynamic envir

In this article, Jenner & Block Partner Michele L. Slachetka and Associate Christian Plummer explain that the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in an increase in inquiries from law firms interested in exploring the possibility of using funding to hedge risk and add balance sheet stability to help combat the unpredictability.  Lawyers new to litigation funding may have questions regarding the discoverability and protection of materials shared with a funder. The authors summarize the trends that have

Jenner & Block Releases 2017 Edition of Privilege and Work Product Handbook.Jenner & Block recently released the newly-revised, 2017 edition of its attorney-client privilege and work product doctrine guide, titled Protecting Confidential Legal Information: A Handbook for Analyzing Issues Under the Attorney-Client Privilege and The Work Product Doctrine.  Authors of the guide include Partners David Greenwald and Michele Slachetka.