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Fourth Circuit Overturns Federal Prosecutors’ Use of Filter Team to Conduct Search of Law Firm Documents

The Fourth Circuit joined the fast-growing club of federal courts objecting to federal prosecutors and agents reliance on so-called “filter-team” procedures to review documents seized from a law firm that may contain privileged attorney-client and work product information.  The Court’s decision is here. Over the last twenty years, federal prosecutors and agents have relied on filter team procedures to review documents and other materials that...