Common Legal Interest Clause Samples
A Common Legal Interest clause establishes that two or more parties share a mutual legal interest, typically in relation to a specific matter or litigation, and agree to cooperate in their legal strategies. This clause allows the parties to exchange privileged information, such as legal advice or documents, without waiving attorney-client privilege or work product protections. By formalizing this shared interest, the clause ensures that sensitive communications remain protected from disclosure to third parties, thereby facilitating open collaboration while safeguarding confidentiality.
Common Legal Interest. (a) In furtherance of their common and joint legal interest, CU and CUF acknowledge and agree that it has been and will be advisable and necessary for the respective counsel for CU and CUF to communicate with one another, in confidentiality and under privilege, to share work product and client information in connection with issues related to the Affiliation Agreement; the receipt, holding, leasing, mortgaging, development, administration, and management of property and assets for the benefit of CU and other contractual relations of CUF; and any court action, regulatory, civil, criminal audit, or other proceedings that might arise therefrom, as those additional matters as included on one or more schedules attached hereto and incorporated herein, and any court action, regulatory, civil, criminal audit, or other proceedings that might arise therefrom.
(b) These communications are expected to include, without limitation, conferences of counsel, joint interviews of agents (e.g., auditors, experts, and consultants), and exchanges of documents and information related to any Legal Assessment, and any related court action or other proceedings that might arise therefrom. The subject matter of the communications and exchanges will or may include, without limitation: (a) strategy and tactics regarding any Legal Assessment and any future court action, regulatory review, or other proceeding, including proceedings before South Carolina Attorney General, the Office for Civil Rights, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office,
Common Legal Interest. The Parties agree that they share a common legal interest in obtaining valid and enforceable patents.
Common Legal Interest. Advisor and the Company agree that they share a mutual and common legal interest to cooperate in the prosecution or defense of pending or future litigations, arbitrations, claims, investigations, and regulatory actions that may arise from time to time and may be considered a single corporate client in respect of their representation by legal counsel in certain matters. Such cooperation and single corporate client status may involve the exchange of privileged and/or confidential, business, financial, technical or other documents, information and communications between Advisor and its affiliates, counsel, consultants or other agents on the one hand, and the Company and its affiliates, counsel, consultants and agents on the other. In order to allow the sharing of such privileged and/or confidential documents, information and communications in furtherance of any common legal interest and/or single corporate client status, Advisor and the Company agree to maintain, and will direct their respective counsel, consultants and other agents to maintain, the confidentiality of documents, information and communications that have been or will be exchanged (collectively, “Common Interest Materials”). All Common Interest Materials exchanged between or among Advisor and the Company, their respective counsel, and any consultants or agents that may be retained by either of them or their respective counsel are confidential and are protected from disclosure to third parties by the attorney-client privilege, the joint defense privilege, the common interest privilege, or the attorney work-product doctrine, which privileges and protections may not be waived by any person without the prior written consent of the holder of the privilege. In sharing Common Interest Materials, Advisor and the Company rely and invoke the joint defense or common interest exception to the waiver of the attorney-client privilege, the attorney work product doctrine or any other applicable privilege or protection.
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