Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas v. City of Dallas

When this Court gets to make the rules, it goes to great lengths to protect attorney-client communications. As the Court explains today, under the common law and our evidentiary and procedural rules (that is, the rules this Court gets to make), most attorney-client communications are protected from compelled disclosure unless the client waives the privilege by intentionally relinquishing it or engaging in conduct inconsistent with the right to claim it. Ante at 262-63 (citing In re Nationwide Ins. Co., 494 S.W.3d 708, 712 (Tex. 2016) (orig. proceeding); Tex. R. Evid. 503, 511; Tex. R. Civ. P.…