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Don't waive your attorney client privilege by mistake Your personal journal can be exposed to the insurance company defense lawyer unless you know how to protect your privacy.

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00:00 Introduction
00:21 Attorney Client Privilege
01:02 Tell your attorney and and all the information you may have
01:20 Criminal Cases have the same Attorney Client Privilege
01:40 Personal Injury Journal to protect your Privilege
02:08 Insurance defense lawyer may ask for your regular diary
02:10 When your attorney asks you to keep a diary it is protected from disclosure to the insurance company
02:30 By signing a written agreement to keep the contents confidential under the attorney client privilege is how and why a court will keep your journal confidential
03:50 If you disclose part of the journal, only that part you disclosed will you waive your privilege
04:16 You should share some of your information with your doctors
04:24 Prior medical treatment should be shared
04:40 What your journal should keep track of
05:50 Certain pages should never be shared outside of you and your attorney
05:57 What information you should not share with others outside of your attorney
06:40 What the AMA asks you want to keep track of which is how your injuries are affecting your life beyond what your medical records say
07:00 What are your activities of daily living
07:17 Duties under duress.
07:30 Loss of enjoyment of life
08:00 Doctors are busy and don't record how your injuries affect your life
08:11 Specific pages are designed to be shared with your doctors
08:38 Tracking things you rarely do now because of your injuries
08:44 Tracking things you can still do with difficulty or pain
09:00 Why it is important to keep a personal injury journal
10:00 Your journal will help you remember small but important things
10:03 Use your journal for mediation, deposition and trial
10:30 Your journal will tell me things about you I would have never thought to ask about
10:40 A real life example
11:20 Is your journal self serving
11:58 A personal diary may have to much information that you don't want to reveal
12:05 Focus groups and your personal injury journal
12:28 Insurance defense lawyers will harp on personal information you may put in your own diary that is not protected by the attorney client privilege.
12:40 The personal injury journal is designed to protect your privilege
13:10 Personal Injury Timeline will be more accurate
13:19 Before and after witnesses will testify better with the help of your personal injury journal
13:40 Help us collect more evidence and photographs to show your injuries
13:50 Surveillance can be explained with your personal injury journal
14:20 Who can you show the journal to
14:40 Showing your friends your journal will waive your privilege
14:40 Some pages you should share with your doctors and waive the privilege to those specific pages, but not the rest of them
15:00 What if you can't write
15:30 Exceptions to the attorney client privilege



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