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The modern business landscape is replete with examples of privileged legal communications occurring outside traditional corporate silos. For years, it has been appreciated by litigants (and courts) that bankers, experts and consultants could sufficiently implicate legal issues and strategies and, as a result, some communications with them may be protected under the attorney-client privilege. More recently, faced with pressure to increase efficiency, companies have increased their dependence on outside entities to complete tasks that were once reserved for in-house employees.
In a similar vein, companies are turning more and more to joint ventures as they attempt to exploit synergies with other companies ' sometimes even competitors ' to accomplish tasks that companies traditionally completed on their own. For example, in the pharmaceutical industry, companies that develop a compound routinely enter into co-promotion agreements with other pharmaceutical companies to promote and market the approved product. Typically, the companies in the co-promotion agreement create one or more joint committees consisting of employees from each company to handle tasks ranging from overall strategic oversight to the review and approval of promotional materials. In the highly regulated pharmaceutical industry, these committees are continually seeking and obtaining legal advice, and companies and their counsel should be diligent in considering whether such communications are privileged and, in turn, protected.
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