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Legal Privilege PRIVILEGE

A CUI category in the Legal grouping of NARA's registry, CUI Basic, marked CUI.

  • PRIVILEGE
  • CUI
  • Basic
  • Legal

NARA's description

CUI Registry · Legal Privilege

Per 15 USC 78x(f)(4): The term "privilege" includes any work-product privilege, attorney-client privilege, governmental privilege, or other privilege recognized under Federal, State, or foreign law. Per 502(g): (1) "attorney-client privilege" means the protection that applicable law provides for confidential attorney-client communications, and (2) "work-product protection" means the protection that applicable law provides for tangible material (or its intangible equivalent) prepared in anticipation of litigation or for trial.

Note: There are two limited dissemination control markings that can be used with this category; Attorney Work Product (AWP), Attorney Client Privilege (AC). These limited dissemination control markings may be used to help identify the type of privilege in the document and limit the dissemination of that information so as to preserve that privilege. These limited dissemination control markings (AWP, AC) may only be used on information protected under the CUI "Legal Privilege" category.

Verbatim from the registry entry, which NARA last reviewed on July 29, 2025. Fetched 2026-09-08.

Markings

Category marking
PRIVILEGE
Banner marking
CUI
Alternative banner, Basic
CUI//PRIVILEGE

A banner reads CUI for Basic categories and CUI//SP-PRIVILEGE for Specified ones, followed by any limited dissemination control such as NOFORN. How the marking rule works, verbatim from 32 CFR 2002.20.

Authorities

The law, regulation or Government-wide policy that makes this information CUI, and whether it does so as a Basic or a Specified authority.

Safeguarding or dissemination authorityBasic or SpecifiedBannerSanctions
10 CFR 2.347(b)BasicCUI
16 CFR 1025.31(c)(3)BasicCUI
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 26(b)(3)BasicCUIFederal Rules of Civil Procedure 37
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 26(b)(5)BasicCUIFederal Rules of Civil Procedure 37
Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure 16(a)(2)BasicCUI
28 CFR 16.23BasicCUI
76 Federal Register 34986BasicCUI
26 USC 7525BasicCUI
Federal Rules of Evidence Rules 501 and 502(g)BasicCUI
18 CFR 385BasicCUI
18 CFR 3c.2BasicCUI
18 CFR 388.112(a)BasicCUI

Source: https://www.archives.gov/cui/registry/category-detail/legal-privilege.