Table of contents
- The DOJ’s use of taint teams
- Taint teams in the courts
- The Fourth Circuit tackles taint teams
- Looking forward
- Practical Advice
- Challenge the use of a taint team
- Challenge the taint team’s process
Article summary
Law360, Expert analysis: The US Department of Justice’s (DOJ’s) new Special Matters Unit may resolve some of the concerns regarding the agency’s so-called taint teams reviewing potentially privileged material, but defence lawyers must stay vigilant as taint teams’ inherent conflict of interest remains, say Jim Brochin and Pat Linehan at Steptoe & Johnson.
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