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Is privilege often misused to mean confidential?

Confidentiality is one part of the privilege. Other parts include that the law practitioner must act in your best interest and that there should be no conflict of interest and that your lawayer must ...
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Is privilege often misused to mean confidential?

The terms confidential and privileged are not interchangeable, but they have closely related meanings that pertain to secrets. Both terms are, indeed, often misused when the other term would be the ...
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In 2013, many news sites reported that a US programmer (Bob) outsourced his work to a company in China. Isn't that illegal?

Many things that are "illegal" are not crimes and you can't be prosecuted or charged for them. Many "illegal" things are merely breaches of contract or civil wrongs, and even then, ...
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