Productivity
Build a privilege log
Every withheld document, described enough to defend and not enough to waive.
Fill it in
What is being reviewed.
Rather than deciding them silently.
Your prompt
Build a privilege log from . Every entry needs enough for the other side to assess the claim and not enough to waive it. Date, author, recipients, type, and a description of the SUBJECT rather than the content: "email seeking legal advice regarding the supply agreement", not what the advice was. The common failures are both fatal. Too vague and the log is challenged and the privilege can be lost; too detailed and it is waived by the log itself. Watch for documents that are only partly privileged, and for anyone copied who breaks it: a lawyer copied on a business email does not make it privileged, and a third party copied on legal advice usually destroys it. Flag the close calls for a human rather than deciding them.
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Why this works
Too vague and the log is challenged and privilege can be lost; too detailed and it is waived by the log itself. This describes the subject rather than the content, and watches for the third party copied on legal advice, which usually destroys the claim.