Attorney-Client Privilege, Work Product Privilege

Kinetic Moves To Disqualify Counsel In False Claims Act Qui Tam Action For Improper Use Of Contractor’s Privileged Documents

by Connie Bertram, Amy Blackwood | Proskauer - Whistleblowing & Retaliation on 5/6/2013

Arguing that relators’ counsel has retained and used, without authority, more than 800 of its attorney-client privileged and work product documents, Kinetic Concepts, Inc. (“KCI”) has asked the District Court for the Central...more

Washington Federal Judge Presumes that Liability Insurer May Not Assert Attorney-Client Privilege or Work Product Protection in...

by Sedgwick LLP on 4/22/2013

On April 12, 2013, Judge Richard Jones of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington ruled that in a bad-faith lawsuit against a liability insurer, the judge would presume that the insurer has no...more

Washington Supreme Court Presumes that First-Party Insurers May Not Assert Attorney-Client Privilege or Work Product Protection in...

by Robert Meyers | Sedgwick LLP on 3/5/2013

In Cedell v. Farmers Ins. Co. of Washington, No. 85366-5 (Wash. February 21, 2013), a 5-4 majority of the Washington Supreme Court established a new framework for evaluating attorney-client privilege and work-product issues...more

Pro Te Solutio - Vol. 5 No. 4 November 2012

by Butler, Snow, O'Mara, Stevens and Cannada,... on 3/4/2013

In This Issue: - Forecast for the Physician Payments Sunshine Act: Partly Cloudy - Document Preservation Notices and the Lists of Who Receive Them: Are They Discoverable? - FDA Warning Letters Through...more

It Is Easy to Lose the Privilege Protecting Audit Documents

by Larry Burke | Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 2/22/2013

In a recent case, documents related to an audit which was described in internal correspondence as being done to assess general compliance were not privileged in later civil litigation since the Court found: (1) the audit was...more

It Is A Unitary Government Afterall: Privilege For Intra-governmental Communications

by Robert S. Sanoff | Foley Hoag LLP - Environmental Law on 2/21/2013

About a year ago, I blogged about a decision by the federal district court in the Lower Fox River case ruling that there was no attorney-client privilege protecting communications between government lawyers representing the...more

The Privilege is in the Policy: Tripartite Attorney-Client Relationship Arises Where Insurer Retains Counsel Pursuant to Policy...

by Katherine Mast | Sedgwick LLP on 1/29/2013

In Bank of America v. Superior Court, ___Cal.Rptr.3d ___, 2013 WL 151153 (Cal. Ct. App. Jan. 15, 2013) the California Court of Appeal for the Fourth Appellate District held that a tripartite attorney-client relationship...more

California Court Holds That A Tripartite Attorney-Client Relationship Exists Between A Title Insurer, Its Insured And Counsel...

by Kenneth Styles | Miller Starr Regalia on 1/25/2013

Ten years ago, a California Court of Appeal took a relatively narrow view of the attorney-client privilege in conjunction with claims investigation and analysis conducted by a title insurer’s in-house counsel....more

Third-Party Bad Faith Litigation – Insurers’ Attorney-Client Privilege and Work Product Doctrine Protections Limited by Tripartite...

by Alicia Curran, Stacey Farrell | Cozen O'Connor on 1/14/2013

In what may be the continuation of a trend toward the erosion of the attorney-client privilege and work product doctrine in bad faith litigation, another court has held that an insurer’s communications with defense counsel...more

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Kinetic Moves To Disqualify Counsel In False Claims Act Qui Tam Action For Improper Use Of Contractor’s Privileged Documents

Washington Federal Judge Presumes that Liability Insurer May Not Assert Attorney-Client Privilege or Work Product Protection in...

Washington Supreme Court Presumes that First-Party Insurers May Not Assert Attorney-Client Privilege or Work Product Protection in...

Pro Te Solutio - Vol. 5 No. 4 November 2012

It Is Easy to Lose the Privilege Protecting Audit Documents

It Is A Unitary Government Afterall: Privilege For Intra-governmental Communications

The Privilege is in the Policy: Tripartite Attorney-Client Relationship Arises Where Insurer Retains Counsel Pursuant to Policy...

California Court Holds That A Tripartite Attorney-Client Relationship Exists Between A Title Insurer, Its Insured And Counsel...

Third-Party Bad Faith Litigation – Insurers’ Attorney-Client Privilege and Work Product Doctrine Protections Limited by Tripartite...

Network Interference: A Legal Guide to the Commercial Risks and Rewards of the Social Media Phenomenon (2nd Edition)

Sending the Privilege Away: Attorney-Client E-Mails in the Corporate Setting

Merck Compelled to Disclose Documents; Confidentiality and Privilege Waived with Prior Disclosure to Government

Illinois Supreme Court: Subject Matter Waiver Doesn't Apply to Most Non-Court Disclosures

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