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Not only that but someone once told me to write the following before any email communications:

  "-- ATTORNEY CLIENT PRIVILEGED --"

They explained to me this allowed us to communicate without fear our discussion can be misquoted and miscategorized in the future.

EDIT: To clarify that was something I needed to add when talking with legal. Not something magic that works for everyone.

So besides being in good standing with a member of their guild you also have to preface your communication with their religious texts. \s

> Not only that but someone once told me to write the following before any email communications:

That only applies when corresponding with counsel, and even there in limited circumstances (not everything can be privileged). If no attorney is addressed, it cannot be privileged.

IIRC, applying the label arbitrarily risks all correspondence being made discoverable.

This does not grant privilege to communications, just so people are aware.

To be legally binding it needs to be

    -----BEGIN ATTORNEY/CLIENT PRIVILEGED BLOCK-----

Never write the END block. Infinite privilege glitch!

and if you never end the block everything you do is safe from now on. Judges don't want you to know this one weird trick

This doesn't work if you're discussing something that's illegal.

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