Legal Privilege 101: What you need to know - Devonshires

Understanding legal privilege isn’t just a concern for lawyers – it’s essential for organisations navigating contracts, disputes, investigations or regulatory risk.

Join us for a practical, client-focused webinar where we break down the various types of legal privilege in the UK and show you how to protect it effectively.

Topics Covered

• Legal privilege – legal advice and litigation
• Other types of privilege – without prejudice and common interest
• Common pitfalls that can waive or remove privilege
• Risk for in-house counsel
• Best practice for protecting privilege

Speakers

Fay Birch, Senior Associate, Litigation & Dispute Resolution 

Fay is a Senior Associate in our Litigation & Dispute Resolution team with a wide breadth of expertise across a range of commercial disputes. She is adept at dealing with high-value and complex disputes with multi-jurisdictional elements.

Fay has been involved with matters including bringing and defending claims for breach of contract, negligence, commercial fraud and shareholder disputes. She also has experience working in insolvency matters and debt recovery.

Her cases often involve work before the County Court, High Court and Court of Appeal, and she has also been involved in commercial arbitrations before the London Court of international Arbitration.