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Attorney-client privilege applies to communication for the purpose of obtaining legal advice and it typically excludes anything already disclosed to a third party, like the bank in this case.

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Aren’t you disclosing your emails to third parties by using something like Gmail?

Yes, you are.

That's a good argument for using PGP/GPG/some other secure communication protocol.

That leaks the subject line (and other metadata), so I'd hardly call PGP over Email a secure communication protocol. You have to do something like use random UUIDs as subjects so you can track conversations without leaking what they're about. It's pretty good privacy for the message body, with pretty shit usability if you want security.

Of course you are, and of course Gmail sends the fed everything they asked for.

There was one email provider that didn't, remember what happened to it?

They had to shut down after being bankrupted by USG?

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