Local Government Law Bulletin #101

Attorney-Client Confidentiality, Minutes, and General Accounts of Closed Sessions: Some Questions and Answers from Multimedia II

Friday, February 1, 2002

Discusses public bodies holding closed sessions including the attorney-client privilege between the public body and its lawyer and how the privilege does not apply to all conversations between attorneys and their clients. In the case of public bodies, there are countervailing statutes that point toward openness, since the people's business is involved.

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