“Extending the crime-fraud exception to claims like MacDonald’s would risk deterring clients from seeking legal advice, chilling lawyers from giving advice, and eroding the attorney-client privilege’s protection of legitimate communications,” Justice Michael B. Hyman wrote on behalf of the three-judge panel.
‘Far-Reaching Implications’: Hague Service Convention Bans Email Process Service to Chinese Defendants, Seventh Circuit Rules
“It … means that many thousands of cases were wrongly