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________________________________ From: Peter Hoffer [mailto:pchoffer@uga.edu] Sent: Tue 1/27/2009 12:58 PM To: H-Net and ASLH Legal History Discussion list Subject: Re: Advice about access to a private archive Dear Mimi: the ABA urges that attorney-client privilege lasts forever. When we worked with the OAH-AHA committee on access to law office archives, the firms, the libraries, and the scholars all agreed that this was nonsense, but the ABA maintained that clients, heirs of clients, and their attorneys could not open these papers. That was twenty years ago. I'm not sure if any progress has been made since then. Best, Peter Charles Hoffer Distinguished Research Professor Department of History University of Georgia Athens, GA 30602
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