March 16, 2017
Jones Day, (Lawyer) a secretive firm with close ties to the current U.S. president, saw its law offices in Germany raided Wednesday by local prosecutors investigating its client, Volkswagen AG.
VW Defends Jones Day After German Prosecutors' Raid
“For U.S. lawyers, two of the most sacrosanct rules are the attorney-client and work-product privileges. Now such protections may be in jeopardy outside the United States.
”While I would opine that such a raid in the United States would be almost unheard of, unless the law firm was part of a criminal conspiracy.”
April 9, 2018
< a href=http://reason.com/archives/2018/04/09/what-we-know-about-the-search-trump-lawy> Feds Raid Office of Trump Lawyer
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(Robert Mueller is aggressive on this sort of thing; he already sought and obtained a court ruling that some of Paul Manafort's communications with his lawyers were not privileged because they were undertaken for the purpose of fraud — the so-called "crime-fraud exception" to the attorney-client privilege.
4. The search warrant application (the lengthy narrative from the FBI agent setting for the evidence) is almost certainly still under seal, and even Michael Cohen doesn't get to see it [yet]. But the FBI would have left the warrant itself — and that shows (1) the federal criminal statutes they were investigating, and (2) the list of items they wanted to seize. Much can be learned for those. Assuming Michael Cohen doesn't release it, watch for it to be leaked.
Again: this is a big deal.
Who do you think will leak the warrant? Cohen's lawyers, or the FBI?