Washington, DC, December 4, 2019 – Miller & Chevalier Chartered recently filed an amicus brief addressing an issue of critical importance to federal government contractors on behalf of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America and The Coalition for Government Procurement. The brief urged the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia to reconsider an earlier ruling in which the court found that a federal contractor waived the protections of the attorney-client privilege and work-product doctrine via a disclosure under the so-called "Mandatory Disclosure Rule." As explained in the filing, which is available here, contractors have been making robust disclosures to the government for more than a decade with the settled understanding and expectation that it does not result in a broad subject matter waiver of privilege or work-product protections.

The case is Anderson v. Fluor Intercontinental, Inc., Civ. No. 19-CV-00289 (E.D.V.A.). The amicus brief was authored by the cross-disciplinary litigation team of Alejandro (Alex) Sarria, Katherine Pappas, Jason Workmaster, and Timothy O'Toole.  

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Founded in 1920, Miller & Chevalier is a Washington, DC law firm with a global perspective and leading practices in Tax, Litigation, International Law, Employee Benefits (including ERISA), White Collar Defense and Internal Investigations, and Government Affairs. Miller & Chevalier is a top-ranked firm sharply focused on targeted areas that interact with the federal government. Over the past three years, the firm's lawyers have represented more than 40 percent of the Fortune 100, one-quarter of the Fortune 500, and approximately 30 percent of the Global 100. Based in Washington, DC, a significant number of firm lawyers have held senior positions in the U.S. government and have written many of the regulations they currently help clients navigate. For more information on the firm, visit www.millerchevalier.com. 

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