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    Attorney-client privilege is recognized law but not absolute

    by David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times Apr 11, 2018 3 minutes

    WASHINGTON - The attorney-client privilege is not written into the U.S. Constitution or federal law, but it is "one of the oldest recognized privileges for confidential communications," Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist wrote 20 years ago.

    "The privilege is intended to encourage full and frank communication between attorneys and their clients and thereby promote broader public interests in the observance of law and the administration of justice," Rehnquist wrote.

    But it is not an absolute or unlimited protection for privacy, he added. It should be "interpreted in the light of reason

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