Common Interest Doctrine In Ambac Assurance Corp. v. Countrywide Home Loans, the Court of Appeals held that the common interest doctrine permitting separately represented parties to share privileged ...

The common interest doctrine (CID), also known as the community-of-interest doctrine, is an exception to the general rule that attorney-client privilege (ACP) is waived when privileged information is ...

The common interest doctrine can sometimes protect as privileged communications among separately represented clients who share a sufficiently common legal interest. Courts take varying approaches to ...

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Under the widely recognized common interest doctrine, separately represented clients may sometimes contractually avoid the otherwise inevitable privilege waiver when sharing privileged communications.