According to the legal definition of privilege, however, the term describes more of a relationship to information and commonly comes up in the context of legal proceedings when one party attempts to access private information of the alternate party, although law usually protects this type of information since most privileged communications are exchanged among partners involved in either a personal or a professional relationship, thereby giving it an inherent expectation of confidentiality (Koocher & Keith-Spiegel,
According to the legal definition of privilege, however, the term describes more of a relationship to information and commonly comes up in the context of legal proceedings when one party attempts to access private information of the alternate party, although law usually protects this type of information since most privileged communications are exchanged among partners involved in either a personal or a professional relationship, thereby giving it an inherent expectation of confidentiality (Koocher & Keith-Spiegel,