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The rules represent a softening of tactics adopted in December 2006 that sought even then to strike a compromise between limiting prosecutors while still aggressively pursuing corporate fraud. Specter has threatened legislation to protect communication and information between attorneys and their corporate clients. The Justice Department's new rules seek to make such legislation unnecessary. At Wednesday morning's hearing, Specter said "the matter of the attorney-client privilege is very, very significant." "When I was a prosecutor, I wouldn't have thought of asking someone to waive their privilege, and yet that is being done here," said Specter, who served as Philadelphia's district attorney in the 1970s. "And it may be in the corporation's interest to waive the privilege to have a reduction in charges or a reduction on sentencing, but there are individuals who have that privilege within the corporation who ought not to be coerced into waiving the privilege."
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