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The parties dispute the legal effect of a contested transaction. A client forwarded legal advice to a business partne...

...record includes facts suggesting that practice was unreasonable or incomplete in this setting. One party invokes ordinary practice in the field, while the other argues that the practice was unreasonable in this setting...

A grand jury investigating illegal campaign reimbursements subpoenas Talia, the campaign treasurer. The prosecutor as...

...ether she personally signed checks to straw donors. Talia invokes the Fifth Amendment, arguing that answers could link her to reimbursement crimes. The court orders Talia to answer after the government grants use and der...

Citations: Hoffman v. United States, Kastigar v. United States