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Greg Clarke The principle of extending lawyer-client privilege to conversations with accountants and other experts is known as the Kovel Rule, and has existed for more than 50 years.
Why Your CPA Might Blab Arden Dale 2011
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Greg Clarke The principle of extending lawyer-client privilege to conversations with accountants and other experts is known as the Kovel Rule, and has existed for more than 50 years.
Why Your CPA Might Blab Arden Dale 2011
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The case gave rise to what's known as a Kovel agreement in which an attorney hires an accountant who can claim to operate with the same privilege.
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In a case involving securities fraud, tax evasion and other crimes, the court ruled that Kovel didn't protect communications between a lawyer and accountant.
Why Your CPA Might Blab Arden Dale 2011
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Recently, however, the IRS and courts have begun limiting Kovel's reach.
Why Your CPA Might Blab Arden Dale 2011
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Those cases now are in the process of being consolidated in a so-called multidistrict litigation docket and a hearing to set where the consolidated cases will be heard is scheduled for later this summer, said David Kovel , a Kirby McInerney LLP lawyer in New York who represents the FTC fund in Vienna.
UBS Aids Probe of Rate Collusion Carrick Mollenkamp 2011
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Mr. Kovel is working with Motley Rice LLC, a South Carolina firm known for pursuing big plaintiffs' litigation such as cases against cigarette and asbestos makers.
Fund Sues Big Banks, Alleging Libor Harm Carrick Mollenkamp 2011
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While taxpayers need to worry about confidentiality under the Kovel Rule, the issue is more important for lawyers, accountants and other experts.
Why Your CPA Might Blab Arden Dale 2011
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"If Libor had been fairly priced, my clients would not have been harmed trading the Eurodollar market," said FTC Capital lawyer David Kovel of Kirby McInerney LLP in New York.
Fund Sues Big Banks, Alleging Libor Harm Carrick Mollenkamp 2011
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Within the tax community, "there is a false perception of what Kovel really is, so that some practitioners have gotten careless," says Ellis L.
Why Your CPA Might Blab Arden Dale 2011
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