The Fifth Amendment right to remain silent extends beyond criminal trials. In what everyday situations can you invoke it?

The Fifth Amendment's protection against compelled self-incrimination applies broadly to any governmental compulsion to speak, not just courtroom testimony. You can invoke it during a police interrogation, before a grand jury, and in Congressional hearings. The statement 'I am invoking my Fifth Amendment right to remain silent and would like an attorney' is a clear and legally effective invocation. In civil litigation, however, a jury is permitted to draw adverse inferences from a witness's refusal to answer under the Fifth Amendment, unlike in criminal cases where no such inference is allowed.