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Articles From William M. Tasch

What Happens When Your Client “Asks Claude”: United States v. Heppner and the AI Privilege Problem By William M. Tasch Law Office Management and Economics, Standing Committee on, May 2026 A federal court's written opinion holding that a defendant's AI chats were unprivileged sends a clear signal to practitioners: clients must be counseled, early and explicitly, not to discuss their cases with AI tools—and the stakes may be higher than they first appear.

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