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The following is strong stuff. But the attorney doing an internal investigation may have to give a warning like this. A Miranda style warning can keep the attorney and the company out of some complications. But it may impede the flow of information.

Print this out and make a card out of it!

My standard statement.

The company is my client. You are not my client. You do not have an attorney-client privilege with me. I may tell the company anything you tell me.

I am doing an investigation for the company. You do not have to tell me anything you want only your own private attorney to know. If you refuse to cooperate with me in this investigation, I may tell the company or others that you refused to cooperate.

The company can tell other people, or the government, anything the company knows.

In our seminars we have some suggestions about this "corporate Miranda warning" and how to use it-- and how not to use it.. Bucklin does his seminar as a principal of Corporate-Ethics US

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