Companies commonly maintain standing committees or groups to review information and decide on employee discipline and terminations.  This raises the question of whether the attorney–client privilege protects from compelled disclosure the information presented to those groups when a lawyer is a member.  One court has said no—because the employee information

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Todd Presnell is a trial lawyer licensed in Georgia and Tennessee who represents major corporations, small businesses, governmental entities, tax-exempt organizations, and individuals in litigation matters. His experience includes product liability cases in the automotive, equipment-manufacturing, food-product, and manufactured housing industries; employment-discrimination cases…

Todd Presnell is a trial lawyer licensed in Georgia and Tennessee who represents major corporations, small businesses, governmental entities, tax-exempt organizations, and individuals in litigation matters. His experience includes product liability cases in the automotive, equipment-manufacturing, food-product, and manufactured housing industries; employment-discrimination cases for small, privately held companies and multinational corporations; disputes over non-compete and non-solicitation agreements; litigation over trade-secrets violations, contract and other disputes involving healthcare companies; fiduciary-duty disputes involving corporate directors and officers; trust-related litigation; and business tort claims