{"id":1720,"date":"2025-12-15T03:14:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T08:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/legal-ethics-journal\/?page_id=1720"},"modified":"2025-12-15T03:14:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T08:14:47","slug":"the-part-parcel-principle-ii-applying-attorney-client-privilege-to-attachments-over-half-a-century","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/legal-ethics-journal\/in-print\/volume-38-issue-3-summer-2025\/the-part-parcel-principle-ii-applying-attorney-client-privilege-to-attachments-over-half-a-century\/","title":{"rendered":"The Part &amp; Parcel Principle, II: Applying Attorney-  Client Privilege to Attachments Over Half a Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A decade ago, this author published a brief article concerning privilege in<br \/>\nattachments to emails, enunciating what it called the \u201cPart &amp; Parcel Principle,\u201d<br \/>\nexplaining that there is no basis to distinguish one technical portion of an attorney-<br \/>\nclient communication from another. But a dated strand of the law from before email<br \/>\ntechnology even existed prescribed evaluating those attachments separately from<br \/>\nthe communication. The original article drew attention to the fallacy of that<br \/>\napproach, unsuited to email attachments, taking hope that the more recent cases<br \/>\nhad broadly embraced the Principle\u2019s logic. A decade later, however, courts<br \/>\nhave reverted to strident dispute over how to treat privilege in email attach<br \/>\nments, and tracing the cases in detail reveals the halting evolution of a more<br \/>\ncoherent theory consistent with the Principle. In the last few years, that theory<br \/>\nhas grown ascendant once more, culminating with a 2024 case that interro<br \/>\ngated the issues with great lucidity and thoroughness.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/legal-ethics-journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2025\/12\/GT-GJLE250038.pdf\">Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A decade ago, this author published a brief article concerning privilege in attachments to emails, enunciating what it called the \u201cPart &amp; Parcel Principle,\u201d explaining that there is no basis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14207,"featured_media":0,"parent":1715,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"abstract.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-1720","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/legal-ethics-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/legal-ethics-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/legal-ethics-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/legal-ethics-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14207"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/legal-ethics-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/legal-ethics-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1722,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/legal-ethics-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1720\/revisions\/1722"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/legal-ethics-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/legal-ethics-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}