A task force of the American Bar Association is planning to ask regulators to give auditors better guidance on what kinds of documents they should avoid asking clients to produce to minimize the risk of exposing a company’s sensitive, private information.
Stanley Keller, a partner with the law firm Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge and a member of the ABA task force on attorney-client privilege, says case law has sent some conflicting signals to auditors and attorneys alike about the extent to which an auditor’s interaction with his or her client is privileged.
